Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 22:01:49 -0500 (EST) From: Timothy J Kniveton <tim@CMU.EDU> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: HD Spin-down Message-ID: <4oPvCRC00YUx0kJUA0@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Does anyone have comments about a good way to get the HD to spin down into power saving mode? I enabled it in my BIOS, but found that the system's periodic syncs caused this to not work. So then I changed kern.update to be some ridiculously high value around 10 hours. Today I found that this was a _really_ bad idea, when I was toying with my sound drivers and the system froze. I lost a lot of info; luckily most of it was easily replaceable. So can anyone tell me the "right" way to do this? thanks. -tim
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