Power down Hard Drive

[Stefan Walter]

Hi,

Chris Ryan in gmane.os.freebsd.devel.acpi:

> I have searched the handbook and I couldn't find any reference for powering
> down the HDD - although many other devices / interfaces etc
>
>
> I have also looked up the APM and ACPI man pages with no luck..
>
>
> Can this be done?

The sysutils/ataidle should do what you want, assuming the drive isn't
too old to support being spun down.

Stefan
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