From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 13 21: 7:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from hubbub.cisco.com (mailgate-sj-1.cisco.com [198.92.30.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB3015464 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 21:07:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from raj@cisco.com) Received: from kitab.cisco.com (kitab.cisco.com [171.69.187.233]) by hubbub.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.2-SunOS.5.5.1.sun4/CISCO.GATE.1.1) with ESMTP id VAA24615; Thu, 13 May 1999 21:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kitab.cisco.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA01038; Mon, 1 Jan 1990 03:26:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from raj@cisco.com) Message-Id: <199001011126.DAA01038@kitab.cisco.com> To: Mark Murray , hosokawa@itc.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi), Armin Gruner , Bruce Campbell Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.1 supporting disk spin down In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 May 1999 08:55:59 +0200." <199905110656.IAA07672@greenpeace.grondar.za> X-Quote: If you consult enough experts, you can confirm any opinion. Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1990 03:26:34 -0800 From: Richard Johnson Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Richard Johnson wrote: > > Like I said, it's not for everyone, but I thought that some people who > > have laptops which don't support disk spin down in hardware (like my > > older AST did) would appreciate it. If you're interested, I'd be glad > > to send you what diffs I have. > > I'd love to look at your patches, please :-). I have a Libretto 110CT. > > M > -- > Mark Murray > Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org I decided the easiest way to distribute these diffs is to put up a compressed tar file on a web site: http://www.employees.org/~raj/disk_spindown.tar.gz This uncompresses and untars into it's own directory. Inside is a README file which explains a little about this hack. The subdirectories are: sys mirrors the /usr/src/sys directory containing the diff files. each is named after the file for which the diffs apply with ".diff" appended to the name. syslogd contains diffs for the "syslogd" program. apm contains diffs for the "apm" program. I believe this should be everything, but since I did this a few months ago I can't be completely sure. If you find that some diffs seem to be missing, let me know and I'll supply them. (I have noticed from time to time that the disk spins back up whenever cron runs, but when I started putting debugging into cron in order to find out more about what was going on, it stopped happening! I can sometimes for quite some time, even with cron running, without the disk spinning up and other times it spins up every 5 minutes or so. It's probably a matter of what's been cached lately.) Good luck! Let me know how it goes! /raj To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message