From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 3 23:46:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69B6E16A4CE for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 23:46:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-02-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B0043D48 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 23:46:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from [192.168.1.103] (cpe-065-184-172-100.ec.rr.com [65.184.172.100])i93NkQ4I012546 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 19:46:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <41608FB8.1080703@ec.rr.com> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 19:48:08 -0400 From: jason User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040808) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD - questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: making a script for folding@home X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 23:46:29 -0000 I have folding@home and wanted to make a startup script for it. I saw another folding client in the ports, but I wanted to tweak the script a little to help my comp run quietly. If I could I would like to run my comp 24x7, but I can't do it right now because I have a hard drive that just screams its so loud and it is in my room. I got the ataidle port, but my drive will spin back up right away or in a min or so. I was hoping this would work, but it seems FreeBSD keeps using the hard drive. I rememer watching shows I downloaded and hearing the hard drive spin down(the show would fit in ram if it matters) a few months ago while running current. Also my hardrive will still spin down while I am in long games of starcraft in windows. I have 5.3 beta3 now and I want to know if it is normal for the hard drive to never spin down for other people that have acpi or apm working. I wrote my first script to create a md, put f@h in it, and run f@h out of ram. When I shutdown the script should cp the working dir back to the hard drive and get rid of the md. This script will only matter if I can get the hard disk to spin down. If you understand what I am tring to do and have some idea please let me know what you think.