Re: utility to set idle timeout on ata drives

2004-01-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 02 January 2004 02:45, Bruce Cran wrote: > describes how to get a FreeBSD 5.1 or later computer to spin-down > ata hard drives - I've been searching for a while for a utility to > do this, and after failing to find one I decided to write it myself. > If people are interested I can add mor

Re: utility to set idle timeout on ata drives

2004-01-02 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:33:03PM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Bruce Cran wrote: > > If people are interested I can add more power management features > > and possibly create a package/port of it. > > It it really necessary to use a configure script and associated junk to >

Re: utility to set idle timeout on ata drives

2004-01-01 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Bruce Cran wrote: > If people are interested I can add more power management features > and possibly create a package/port of it. It it really necessary to use a configure script and associated junk to build a utility that is less than 500 lines of code? -- 10 40 80 C0 00 FF

utility to set idle timeout on ata drives

2004-01-01 Thread Bruce Cran
I've been putting together a router/gateway box for my network, but had been wanting to spin down the hard drives to reduce the noise of the box. I've put together a page which I think might be useful for people putting together router machines as well as laptop users - it's at http://www.cran.or