From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 11:33:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3E3916A4B3 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 11:33:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 054B043FE9 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 11:33:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from ec.rr.com (cpe-024-211-231-149.ec.rr.com [24.211.231.149]) h96ITEkt012747; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:29:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F81DFDF.7020903@ec.rr.com> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 14:34:23 -0700 From: jason User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Constantine References: <3F810695.5040806@rbcmail.ru> In-Reply-To: <3F810695.5040806@rbcmail.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to turn off the HDD? How to reduce the overall noise? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 18:33:16 -0000 This is most easily done in the bios. Check for power settings or energy saver features. You can tell the bios to power down the hard drive after 1 min or an hour later. In your case I would set it to 1 min, so about 1 min after you boot and login the hard drive will power down, unless you touch the mouse or keyboard. Constantine wrote: > Hello, > > My hard disc drive seems to be too noisy for me. I want to test, how > much idle noise would the system make with the hard drive turned off. > I do not want to unplug the wires, since I have had a lot of problems > last time I did that. Is there any command / utility that can turn my > HDD off for a minute or so? > > Are there any other utility that may help me reduce the noise in my > system? > > Right now I have IBM Deskstar 60GXP 41.0GB IC35L040AVER07-0, and I am > considering to change it to IBM (Hitachi) Deskstar 180GXP 60GB > IC35L060AVV207-0, or may be even Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 80GB > HDS722580VLAT20. Have anyone experienced any of those? Are they any > different in the idle noise they produce? > > My motherboard is AOpen AX4G-N Intel 845G(+ICH4) chipset. > > Cheers, > Constantine. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >