Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:19:51 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Henry Olyer <henry.olyer@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'm sure you've heard this before... Message-ID: <20091029001951.000044b7@unknown> In-Reply-To: <1d7089c40910281712r226c36b7h6838cb79b4c759a4@mail.gmail.com> References: <1d7089c40910281712r226c36b7h6838cb79b4c759a4@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:12:06 -0400 Henry Olyer <henry.olyer@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to turn the disks off. > > I sometimes run large jobs and want to switch down the drives. > > On some IBM blades, I have FBSD 6.1, on another machine I am using > 7.2. If they're ATA drives you can use my ATAidle utility from sysutils/ataidle. In FreeBSD 7 you can also use the "spindown" command that's been added to atacontrol(8). -- Bruce Cran
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