Re: spin down a USB-attached disk?

2013-09-24 Thread Anatoly
В Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:01:53 +0200 Gary Jennejohn пишет: Can't test it now on latest versions of FreeBSD, will test as it will be possible, but on 5.x, 6.x and 7.x I always used like: camcontrol eject 0:0:1 to "power down" sdcard slot on card readers before physically ejecting sdcard. Don't know i

Re: spin down a USB-attached disk?

2013-09-24 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:26:01 +0400 Anatoly wrote: > By the way, what exactly goes wrong with camcontrol? I answered that question once already but forgot to Cc the list. I gave that a whirl but it didn't work. Seems like camcontrol isn't able to send raw commands to the umass disk through the

Re: spin down a USB-attached disk?

2013-09-23 Thread Anatoly
By the way, what exactly goes wrong with camcontrol? ___ freebsd-usb@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-usb-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: spin down a USB-attached disk?

2013-09-23 Thread Anatoly
В Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:50:47 +0200 Gary Jennejohn пишет: Have you tried to suspend that usb device? I can't recall now how exactly this may be done on 8+. It is something like: usbconfig -d 0.2 suspend you can read man usbconfig about it. On 7.x this may be done with upower utility that someone ha

Re: spin down a USB-attached disk?

2013-09-17 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, Gary Jennejohn wrote: I have a possibly dumb question. Is it possible to send a spindown command through USB to a SATA disk attached as umass? I like to spin down my disks before turning them off and with an ad-disk it's quite simple using camcontrol. I haven't been able