firewire disk spindown and other questions

Nate Lawson nate at root.org
Tue Aug 19 09:38:15 PDT 2003


On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:
> At Wed, 13 Aug 2003 21:58:14 -0700 (PDT),
> <kyriazis at meer.net> wrote:
> > One basic question that I have is:  Is it possible to set an
> > automatic spindown of my firewire drives?  I looked at the camcontrol
> > manpage, but it doesn't say anything interesting.
>
> freebsd-scsi should be the better place to ask this question.
> There might be a mode page to control the automatic spindown but
> I don't know.

I'm not aware of what settings there are for automatic spindown but you
could do it with camcontrol stop/start from userland if the drive supports
that command.

-Nate


More information about the freebsd-firewire mailing list