Hard Drive wont spin down.

[Eric Anderson]

On 09/18/06 08:12, Sandro Noel wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> i'm runing FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE
> I have it installed on a VIA EPIA SP 13000 as a file server.
> and the hard drives are connected to the Primary IDE controller.
> 
> for some reason the drives NEVER spin down
> is there something i should do to to the computer to spin them down
> when he is iddle ?

I think you'll need to use something like ataidle.

However, on a file server, I'm not sure they will spin down very often.

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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