Hi Constantine,
I read this threat in the forum http://lists.freebsd.org
http://lists.freebsd.org/ .
I am looking for the same function. Do you have a solution meanwhile?
Thanks and best regards
Max Hochreutener, Switzerland
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I do not have a monitor around my FreeBSD box, so there is no way of
accessing the BIOS.
Is there any utility that can do that for me from FreeBSD?
On 2003-10-06 17:34, jason wrote:
This is most easily done in the bios. Check for power settings or
energy saver features. You can tell the bios
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:49, Eric Dillenseger wrote:
BTW, turning it off is almost useless, as there's often a little
activity on most *real* OS so reducing noise is better (in fact it
reduces the spinning speed during heavy operations).
Just my 2cts.
There's also the case where you might
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 02:50:42AM -0400, C. Ulrich wrote:
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:49, Eric Dillenseger wrote:
BTW, turning it off is almost useless, as there's often a little
activity on most *real* OS so reducing noise is better (in fact it
reduces the spinning speed during heavy
Hello,
My hard disc drive seems to be too noisy for me. I want to test, how
much idle noise would the system make with the hard drive turned off. I
do not want to unplug the wires, since I have had a lot of problems last
time I did that. Is there any command / utility that can turn my HDD off
This is most easily done in the bios. Check for power settings or
energy saver features. You can tell the bios to power down the hard
drive after 1 min or an hour later. In your case I would set it to 1
min, so about 1 min after you boot and login the hard drive will power
down, unless you
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:34:23PM -0700, jason wrote:
This is most easily done in the bios. Check for power settings or
energy saver features. You can tell the bios to power down the hard
drive after 1 min or an hour later. In your case I would set it to 1
min, so about 1 min after you
