From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Aug 11 23: 6:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from kitab.cisco.com (kitab.cisco.com [171.69.187.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0872314DB7 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 23:06:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from raj@cisco.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kitab.cisco.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA47707 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 23:06:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from raj@cisco.com) Message-Id: <199908120606.XAA47707@kitab.cisco.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Keeping your disk drive spun down X-Mailer: MH, Xemacs, X11R6, and FreeBSD from my laptop. Unbeatable! X-Quote: "Truth is not absolute. We define it every minute of every day." Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 23:06:07 -0700 From: Richard Johnson Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org A while back I posted information about some diffs I had produced for allowing my disk drive (wd) on my laptop to automatically spin down after some minutes of no I/O. A few people asked about the diffs and I sent them to those people. Since then I noticed that many times the drive would spin up about every 5 minutes or so. I found this was cron running /usr/libexec/atrun, so I created a memory filesystem containing just this program. That seems to keep the drive down almost all of the time! Just letting those know who care. /raj To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message