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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news.att.net.au!news.att.net.hk!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news.glink.net.hk!uunet!in1.uu.net!207.172.3.52!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.nacamar.de!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news-kar1.dfn.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Harddisk spindown for laptop? Date: 7 May 1997 22:01:42 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5kqu46$je1@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <8667wyvxxb.fsf@kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> <5kpo7g$o69@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40581 brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) wrote: > Can't you let your BIOS do it ? Btw., that's actually the BIOS telling it to the drive at boot time, and the drive will remember it. Btw.^2, i've got some patches around that allow to set the sleep timer of an IDE drive using the wd(4) driver. I'll commit them some day (although their design looks fairly hacky, that's the reason why i didn't commit them yet). I've implemented this since i needed it for a standby disk in a customer's (non-notebook) machine. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)