utility to set idle timeout on ata drives

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Friday 02 January 2004 02:45, Bruce Cran wrote:
> describes how to get a FreeBSD 5.1 or later computer to spin-down
> ata hard drives - I've been searching for a while for a utility to
> do this, and after failing to find one I decided to write it myself.
> If people are interested I can add more power management features
> and possibly create a package/port of it.  Apologies if this is
> off-topic for -hackers - I hope people might find this information
> useful.

This would probably best be made part of atacontrol (and submit a patch for 
it)

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