How can I manually turn off the HDD?

[Steve Franks]

I had heard the "automounter" could accomplish this as well when I was
researching the same topic, but never got around to trying it (had
major problems with a raid driver instead)
Steve

On 2/14/07, Daniel Rudy <dr2867 at pacbell.net> wrote:
> At about the time of 2/13/2007 10:58 AM, Chuck Swiger stated the following:
> > On Feb 13, 2007, at 7:47 AM, deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
> >> How can I turn off the HDD? .. and leave the buffers in the memory,
> >> until the RAM is full .. then spin up the drive, write out the
> >> data, then it turn off again.
> >
> > ENOTSUPPORTED, at least with FreeBSD.  Note that Apple has done a lot
> > of work to facilitate drive spindown for power-saving reasons for
> > their laptops, so MacOS X will make a reasonable attempt to spindown
> > the drives until really needed....
> >
>
> There is a port called ataidle that you may want to look at.  It
> programs the HDD to spin down after a specified timeout.
>
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> Daniel Rudy
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