Re: ATA harddrive sleep/spindown timout?
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:36:29PM -0800, Graham North wrote: I stumbled on this post by you - but not resolving answers - I have the same question? Is it possible to put ata harddrives in spindown/sleep/suspend mode without putting the whole system to sleep/suspend? I don't know the right answer to this, but the following work-around may help: # atacontrol detach channelnumber has the nice side effect of spinning down the detached drives. WARNING: Don't detach drives (channels) with mounted file systems. Umount first, then detach! Use at your own risk! Cheers, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ATA harddrive sleep/spindown timout?
* Graham North [2005-02-23 22:36 -0800] Is it possible to put ata harddrives in spindown/sleep/suspend mode without putting the whole system to sleep/suspend? Take a look at ataidle in the ports collection. Note that the disk will come back to life again when you access it, and that several processes do exactly this all the time. In order for ataidle to be very useful, you'd have to twaek the system's crontabs et.al. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ATA harddrive sleep/spindown timout?
Hello Svein: Thank you for this suggestion. I will follow-up. Graham/ Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: * Graham North [2005-02-23 22:36 -0800] Is it possible to put ata harddrives in spindown/sleep/suspend mode without putting the whole system to sleep/suspend? Take a look at ataidle in the ports collection. Note that the disk will come back to life again when you access it, and that several processes do exactly this all the time. In order for ataidle to be very useful, you'd have to twaek the system's crontabs et.al. 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ATA harddrive sleep/spindown timout?
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
