Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:58:34 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: deeptech71@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I manually turn off the HDD? Message-ID: <BAF426AE-B596-41B1-8697-3B70CE2362CC@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <45D1DDA5.90207@gmail.com> References: <45D1DDA5.90207@gmail.com>
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On Feb 13, 2007, at 7:47 AM, deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > How can I turn off the HDD? .. and leave the buffers in the memory, > until the RAM is full .. then spin up the drive, write out the > data, then it turn off again. ENOTSUPPORTED, at least with FreeBSD. Note that Apple has done a lot of work to facilitate drive spindown for power-saving reasons for their laptops, so MacOS X will make a reasonable attempt to spindown the drives until really needed.... -- -Chuck
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