Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 19:57:20 +0200 From: heikki soerum <heikkis@student.matnat.uio.no> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ATA harddrive sleep/spindown timout? Message-ID: <20030522195720.7f48b49a.heikkis@ifi.uio.no>
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I'm running FreeBSD 4.8-stable on an Mini ITX Epia system. (onboard C3 800 mhz, Video, sound, NIC, TV-out, 2 ATA IDE controllers.) Is it possible to put ata harddrives in spindown/sleep/suspend mode without putting the whole system to sleep/suspend? I'm building an fileserver with several disks that won't be used more than a couple of hours each day, and in the mean time I would like to reduce the noise level by putting the ATA harddrives in sleep/suspend mode with an timeout. This is an *critical* abillity, I like FreeBSD a lot, but without this functionality I'l have to run linux and use hdparm to reduce the noise to an acceptable level. Heikki Soerum. -- - "In My Not so Humble Opinion"
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