Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 16:36:08 -0400 From: Michael Knoll <knollm@lafcol.lafayette.edu> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Harddrive powerdowns Message-ID: <3.0.32.19971023163503.00a6e330@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
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I have an IDE harddrive in a FreeBSD machine, and would like to enable power down for it. In the BIOS I can set the time, and it will power down when in BSD, but, when I use the HD, causing the HD to spin up, I get one or two interrupt time outs on the wd0 device. Is this safe? Will these timeouts ever cause corruption? Can FreeBSD it's power down the HD, and recognize the HD is down, and wait longer for spinning up? What is the best solution to get my HD to spin down? BTW, I do not want any other power management on the machine. Thanks Michael
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