From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 21:25:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12390 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:25:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbox.ml.org (hsv1-184.airnet.net [207.242.81.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA12382 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:25:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ninbox.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA03569; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 23:22:22 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3647CD8C.CAE9CD03@airnet.net> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 23:22:20 -0600 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Bond, Jeffery" CC: "'FreeBSD questions'" Subject: Re: IDE spindown without APM BIOS References: <711344C31ACDD1118B94006097827D5B9527D8@exchange.nectech.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bond, Jeffery wrote: > > Hello chaps, > > Does anyone know if and how its possible to get my old IDE hard disk to spin > down after a period on inactivity? I'm running 2.2.7-RELEASE on an old > compaq 486 WITHOUT any power management in the BIOS. Can this be done? Unless you're dealing with a laptop, it isn't necessary, nor does it contribute much to power consumption, etc. I ran with the drives spun down, but it doesn't amount to much with modern IDE drives, nor their predecessors. This isn't a 5+1/4" drive is it? -- Kris Kirby UAH Mail UAH CS Home WWW ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message