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 Cheers, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/