How to turn off the HDD? How to reduce the overall noise?

[Constantine]

I do not have a monitor around my FreeBSD box, so there is no way of 
accessing the BIOS.
Is there any utility that can do that for me from FreeBSD?

On 2003-10-06 17:34, jason wrote:

> This is most easily done in the bios.  Check for power settings or 
> energy saver features.  You can tell the bios to power down the hard 
> drive after 1 min or an hour later.  In your case I would set it to 1 
> min, so about 1 min after you boot and login the hard drive will power 
> down, unless you touch the mouse or keyboard.
>
> Constantine wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> My hard disc drive seems to be too noisy for me. I want to test, how 
>> much idle noise would the system make with the hard drive turned off. 
>> I do not want to unplug the wires, since I have had a lot of problems 
>> last time I did that. Is there any command / utility that can turn my 
>> HDD off for a minute or so?
>>
>> Are there any other utility that may help me reduce the noise in my 
>> system?
>>
>> Right now I have IBM Deskstar 60GXP 41.0GB IC35L040AVER07-0, and I am 
>> considering to change it to IBM (Hitachi) Deskstar 180GXP 60GB 
>> IC35L060AVV207-0, or may be even Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 80GB 
>> HDS722580VLAT20. Have anyone experienced any of those? Are they any 
>> different in the idle noise they produce?
>>
>> My motherboard is AOpen AX4G-N Intel 845G(+ICH4) chipset.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Constantine.
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