Re: ATA harddrive sleep/spindown timout?

2005-02-24 Thread cpghost
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

Re: ATA harddrive sleep/spindown timout?

2005-02-24 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* 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

Re: ATA harddrive sleep/spindown timout?

2005-02-24 Thread Graham North
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

ATA harddrive sleep/spindown timout?

2005-02-23 Thread Graham North
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