From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Feb 21 10:48:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from zogbe.tasam.com (hc6526bd1.dhcp.vt.edu [198.82.107.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE02837B401 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 10:48:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clash@tasam.com) Received: from battleship (hc6526bd1.dhcp.vt.edu [198.82.107.209]) by zogbe.tasam.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f1LImiV07105 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:48:45 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <001901c09c36$ea10a3e0$dc02010a@battleship> From: "Joe Gleason" To: Subject: IDE Drive spindown timeout Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:48:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have searched the lists and haven't found any answer to this question. Is there a way to either force an IDE drive to spindown or set the idle timeout for it? I have a drive that I use for backups. I would like to have it spin down, use less power and make less noise when not in use. atapci1: port 0x8000-0x803f,0x7c00-0x7c03,0x7800-0x7807,0x7400-0x7403,0x7000-0x7007 mem 0xe4000000-0xe401ffff irq 9 at device 18.0 on pci0 ata2: at 0x7000 on atapci1 ata3: at 0x7800 on atapci1 ad4: 73308MB [148945/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 ad6: 73308MB [148945/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message