I'm sure you've heard this before...

2009-10-28 Thread Henry Olyer
I want to turn the disks off.

I sometimes run large jobs and want to switch down the drives.

On some IBM blades, I have FBSD 6.1, on another machine I am using 7.2.
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Re: I'm sure you've heard this before...

2009-10-28 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:12:06 -0400
Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote:

 I want to turn the disks off.
 
 I sometimes run large jobs and want to switch down the drives.
 
 On some IBM blades, I have FBSD 6.1, on another machine I am using
 7.2. 

If they're ATA drives you can use my ATAidle utility from
sysutils/ataidle.  In FreeBSD 7 you can also use the spindown command
that's been added to atacontrol(8).

-- 
Bruce Cran
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