ATA harddrive sleep/spindown timout?
Graham North
graham.north at telus.net
Thu Feb 24 06:36:20 GMT 2005
Hello Heikki:
I stumbled on this post by you - but not resolving answers - I have the
same question?
Did you find good answers for FreeBSD? If so, would you be willing to
share your experience?
Thank you for any help you can offer.
Graham North
graham.north at telus.net
Your post last year:************
I'm running FreeBSD 4.8-stable
on an Mini ITX Epia system.
(onboard C3 800 mhz, Video, sound, NIC, TV-out, 2 ATA IDE controllers.)
Is it possible to put ata harddrives in spindown/sleep/suspend mode
without putting the whole system to sleep/suspend?
I'm building an fileserver with several disks that won't be used more
than a couple of hours each day, and in the mean time I would like to
reduce the noise level by putting the ATA harddrives in sleep/suspend
mode with an timeout.
This is an *critical* abillity, I like FreeBSD a lot, but without this
functionality I'l have to run linux and use hdparm to reduce the noise
to an acceptable level.
Heikki Soerum.
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