ATA harddrive sleep/spindown timout?

[Graham North]

Hello Svein:

Thank you for this suggestion.  I will follow-up.
Graham/


Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:

>* Graham North [2005-02-23 22:36 -0800]
>  
>
>> Is it possible to put ata harddrives in spindown/sleep/suspend mode 
>> without putting the whole system to sleep/suspend?
>>    
>>
>
>Take a look at ataidle in the ports collection.
>
>Note that the disk will come back to life again when you access it, and 
>that several processes do exactly this all the time. In order for ataidle 
>to be very useful, you'd have to twaek the system's crontabs et.al.
>
>
>  
>

-------------- next part --------------
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.4.0 - Release Date: 2/22/2005