Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:57:47 -0500 From: "Mike Gruver" <mgruver@carolina.rr.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: How do I use apm to turn off harddrive when not in use? Message-ID: <000801c08102$d3204900$0200a8c0@digitalavalanche.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C080D8.E89F0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In the spirit of energy conservation, I have a FreeBSD server running = 24/7. Unfortunately I can't find anything in the system BIOS to control = the harddrive power management features. I have noticed that it is = spinning 24/7. I have loaded gnome so I can power down the monitor when = not in use. The only remaining repeat offender in the power management = catagory is the harddrive. I have cruised the man pages for apm but = can't seem to find anything to control the hard drive. Any suggestions? mgruver@carolina.rr.com ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C080D8.E89F0200 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>In the spirit of energy conservation, I = have a=20 FreeBSD server running 24/7. Unfortunately I can't find anything = in the=20 system BIOS to control the harddrive power management features. I = have=20 noticed that it is spinning 24/7. I have loaded gnome so I can = power down=20 the monitor when not in use. The only remaining repeat offender in = the=20 power management catagory is the harddrive. I have cruised the man = pages=20 for apm but can't seem to find anything to control the hard drive. = Any=20 suggestions?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial = size=3D2>mgruver@carolina.rr.com</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C080D8.E89F0200-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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