Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:28:57 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> To: "Daniel Rudy" <dr2867@pacbell.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I manually turn off the HDD? Message-ID: <539c60b90702140828v1eab35c9lba6fd7e8b9deac8e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45D2C107.80307@pacbell.net> References: <45D1DDA5.90207@gmail.com> <BAF426AE-B596-41B1-8697-3B70CE2362CC@mac.com> <45D2C107.80307@pacbell.net>
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I had heard the "automounter" could accomplish this as well when I was researching the same topic, but never got around to trying it (had major problems with a raid driver instead) Steve On 2/14/07, Daniel Rudy <dr2867@pacbell.net> wrote: > At about the time of 2/13/2007 10:58 AM, Chuck Swiger stated the following: > > On Feb 13, 2007, at 7:47 AM, deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > >> How can I turn off the HDD? .. and leave the buffers in the memory, > >> until the RAM is full .. then spin up the drive, write out the > >> data, then it turn off again. > > > > ENOTSUPPORTED, at least with FreeBSD. Note that Apple has done a lot > > of work to facilitate drive spindown for power-saving reasons for > > their laptops, so MacOS X will make a reasonable attempt to spindown > > the drives until really needed.... > > > > There is a port called ataidle that you may want to look at. It > programs the HDD to spin down after a specified timeout. > > -- > Daniel Rudy > _______________________________________________ > 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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