Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:16:26 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> To: "Pieter de Goeje" <pieter@degoeje.nl> Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available? Message-ID: <539c60b90704111316w38017613sd50718d901d37831@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200704091751.27697.pieter@degoeje.nl> References: <46192C1B.4060706@u.washington.edu> <200704091751.27697.pieter@degoeje.nl>
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Say, I've been meaning to install ataidle for awhile, as my server handles approximately 3-5 requests for cvs per 24 hours, and I'm a pragmatic believer in the dangers of global warming, and I've never had a disk go bad on my old w2k systems, even though they spun up/down at least 20-50 times a day (on my desktop). It's non-obivous, however, from the docs/man wether ataide makes persistent changes, or if you need to run it from cron, rc, etc. Anyone know the 'proper' usage for ataidle? I found this: http://andreas.syndrom23.de/drupal/files/ataidle which might be of general interest to folks along these same lines. No idea if it's correct usage, however. Thanks, Steve On 4/9/07, Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> wrote: > > On Sunday 08 April 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > Hello again all, > > I was wondering if there was an automatic, and possibly timed > means to > > spin down disks available in either ports or the base system, by chance. > > Just trying to cut down on energy use, and increase my disks' > lives :). > > TIA, > > -Garrett > Take a look at ataidle (sysutils/ataidle). Dunno if it helps with their > life > expectancy, but it certainly is quieter without the disks spinning :). > > HTH, > Pieter de Goeje > _______________________________________________ > 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" > -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089
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