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Date:      Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:38:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        kyriazis@meer.net
Cc:        freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: firewire disk spindown and other questions
Message-ID:  <20030819093657.D6620@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <ybs8ypqjm1t.wl@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
References:  <54827.209.157.141.26.1060837094.squirrel@webmail.meer.net> <ybs8ypqjm1t.wl@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>

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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:
> At Wed, 13 Aug 2003 21:58:14 -0700 (PDT),
> <kyriazis@meer.net> wrote:
> > One basic question that I have is:  Is it possible to set an
> > automatic spindown of my firewire drives?  I looked at the camcontrol
> > manpage, but it doesn't say anything interesting.
>
> freebsd-scsi should be the better place to ask this question.
> There might be a mode page to control the automatic spindown but
> I don't know.

I'm not aware of what settings there are for automatic spindown but you
could do it with camcontrol stop/start from userland if the drive supports
that command.

-Nate



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