From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 19:44:24 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 25E9C16A4B3 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cnst.dnsq.org (user113.net744.nc.sprint-hsd.net [65.41.165.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C96843F75 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:44:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cnst@rbcmail.ru) Received: from rbcmail.ru (Dell_Inspiron_8100 [192.168.0.1]) by cnst.dnsq.org (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9F2i1f7000759; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:44:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cnst@rbcmail.ru) Message-ID: <3F8CB46C.3020602@rbcmail.ru> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:43:56 -0400 From: Constantine User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, ru, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jason References: <3F810695.5040806@rbcmail.ru> <3F81DFDF.7020903@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3F81DFDF.7020903@ec.rr.com> 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: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 02:44:24 -0000 I do not have a monitor around my FreeBSD box, so there is no way of accessing the BIOS. Is there any utility that can do that for me from FreeBSD? On 2003-10-06 17:34, jason wrote: > 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. >