Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 20:24:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jeffrey Anuszczyk <jeffa@novera.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about power management Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971031202013.19820P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3458E6FA.67B04DAB@novera.com>
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On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Jeffrey Anuszczyk wrote: > I noticed that V2.2.2 contains support for APM. I'm currently using > my FreeBSD as a server for ISDN and disk (samba). Since I have > multiple systems always on I thought I could use this to reduce > my overall power consumption (yea I get amusing electric bills :-) > > That said I configured my system bios to specify the standby time > but I disable the suspend time. I want to slow the CPU down, > spin down the disk, etc, but I don't want to suspend the system. > > Unfortunately the systems insists on suspending. Yea all I have > to do is touch the keyboard to unsuspend... but since this is a > server it doesn't have a keyboard, monitor or mouse. Since I've > been unable to figure this out I've been forced to disable apm. > > Is there anyway to configure this to work as I want? Usually these options can be tuned in your BIOS. Note that the IDE disk driver will always disable disk spin-down as the driver gets bent out of shape pretty badly when it tries to access a spun-down disk. It was also causing some support problems with people asking ``I got this error. Are my disks dying?'' Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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