From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 18 12:14:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FB2716A433 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:14:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10D3343D48 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:14:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7ICEkCb030670; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:14:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <43047BC9.7010000@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:15:05 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050815 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: m.ehinger@ltur.de References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/1031/Thu Aug 18 04:51:29 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Glenn Dawson Subject: Re: Parking disk drive heads X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:14:58 -0000 m.ehinger@ltur.de wrote: > I don't want to park them on turn off. I want to park them before a possible strong shock which could cause damage and unpark them > afterwards. If it's an ata disk, you might look at ataidle in the ports collection. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------