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From: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>, terry@lambert.org
Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Hacked kernel with option to disable "green" mode
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>> 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).

This would not work for installation. I couldn't get FreeBSD *installed*
before I added the hard disk code to the kernel.

--Brett