Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:36:29 -0800 From: Graham North <graham.north@telus.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ATA harddrive sleep/spindown timout? Message-ID: <421D75ED.3020405@telus.net>
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--=======AVGMAIL-421D75EE6A5C======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Heikki: I stumbled on this post by you - but not resolving answers - I have the same question? Did you find good answers for FreeBSD? If so, would you be willing to share your experience? Thank you for any help you can offer. Graham North graham.north@telus.net Your post last year:************ I'm running FreeBSD 4.8-stable on an Mini ITX Epia system. (onboard C3 800 mhz, Video, sound, NIC, TV-out, 2 ATA IDE controllers.) Is it possible to put ata harddrives in spindown/sleep/suspend mode without putting the whole system to sleep/suspend? I'm building an fileserver with several disks that won't be used more than a couple of hours each day, and in the mean time I would like to reduce the noise level by putting the ATA harddrives in sleep/suspend mode with an timeout. This is an *critical* abillity, I like FreeBSD a lot, but without this functionality I'l have to run linux and use hdparm to reduce the noise to an acceptable level. Heikki Soerum. --=======AVGMAIL-421D75EE6A5C======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg=cert; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: "AVG certification" No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.4.0 - Release Date: 2/22/2005 --=======AVGMAIL-421D75EE6A5C=======--
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