From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 04:47:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA27952 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 04:47:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zeus.tds.edu (zeus.tds.edu [38.149.131.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA27940 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 04:47:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from willow@tds.edu) Received: from zeus.tds.edu (willow@zeus.tds.edu [38.149.131.15]) by zeus.tds.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with ESMTP id HAA11759; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 07:47:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 07:47:20 -0500 (EST) From: Willow To: "Bond, Jeffery" cc: "'FreeBSD questions'" Subject: Re: IDE spindown without APM BIOS In-Reply-To: <711344C31ACDD1118B94006097827D5B9527D8@exchange.nectech.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There's a jumper on the IDE drives that compaq used in those machines. Not sure where but remove the drive and find out who made it and get the specs from their web site (the drive makers web site) -- willow@tds.edu -- On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, 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? > > Thanks for any help, > > Jeff > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message