HDD idle shutdown.

Fri Mar 18 05:22:49 PST 2005

* cpghost at cordula.ws [2005-03-18 11:24 +0100]
>  On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:21:17AM +0100, Christian Tischler wrote:
>  > I wondered whether there is an option to shut down an idle HDD until it 
>  > is needed again?
>  > I am using FreeBSD 5.x.
>  
>  /usr/ports/sysutils/ataidle

Note that, while this indeed will spin down your hdd, the system will most 
likely spin it up again after a short period of time, unless you modify 
some settings. Especially the cron system may cause your hdd to spin up 
every once in a while.

Svein Halvor