Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:03:28 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: utility to set idle timeout on ata drives Message-ID: <200401051103.28443.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040101161519.GA4247@buffy.brucec.backnet> References: <20040101161519.GA4247@buffy.brucec.backnet>
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On Friday 02 January 2004 02:45, Bruce Cran wrote: > describes how to get a FreeBSD 5.1 or later computer to spin-down > ata hard drives - I've been searching for a while for a utility to > do this, and after failing to find one I decided to write it myself. > If people are interested I can add more power management features > and possibly create a package/port of it. Apologies if this is > off-topic for -hackers - I hope people might find this information > useful. This would probably best be made part of atacontrol (and submit a patch for it) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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