I had heard the "automounter" could accomplish this as well when I was researching the same topic, but never got around to trying it (had major problems with a raid driver instead) Steve
On 2/14/07, Daniel Rudy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At about the time of 2/13/2007 10:58 AM, Chuck Swiger stated the following: > On Feb 13, 2007, at 7:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.... > There is a port called ataidle that you may want to look at. It programs the HDD to spin down after a specified timeout. -- Daniel Rudy _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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