From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 16 08:29:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA16716A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:29:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gir.bullmedia.com.au (gir.bullmedia.com.au [202.94.33.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 423C743D2F for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:29:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chrisryanemail@yahoo.com.au) Received: from [192.168.40.247] (CPE-203-51-99-201.nsw.bigpond.net.au [203.51.99.201]) by gir.bullmedia.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9133127217 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:50:44 +0930 (CST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.4.030702.0 Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:29:00 +1000 From: Chris Ryan To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: Power down Hard Drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:29:03 -0000 Hi All I have created a FW / Router on a P2 233MHz, 128mb RAM 4gb HDD running freeBSD 5.2.1 As the main purpose of the machine is to protect the always on ADSL connection with a firewall and NAT internet access for the internal LAN the computer is always left on - I am sure this is extremely normal... Unfortunately this is quite noisy with the drive going all the time I have searched the handbook and I couldn't find any reference for powering down the HDD - although many other devices / interfaces etc I have also looked up the APM and ACPI man pages with no luck.. Can this be done? Many regards Chris