Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 13:23:40 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: Brett Glass <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com>, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hacked kernel with option to disable "green" mode Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960402132056.5131A-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <199604021823.LAA16657@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > Well, then there he goes -- send the 0xFB out that way -- does the 0xFB > have to go out at the start, or could we, for instance, send it after > initialization? > > It seems to me the best place for disabling "green" mode would be in > a user hack to the /etc/rc.local. Exactly. hdparm (8) does this for Linux, and that is how it is usually set up. Call the command in rc.local, no kernel hacking other than the interface to allow root processes to send commands to the drive (not sure hdparm is a generic ioctl interface or not).
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