Hello, since ataidle from ports doesn't work with ATAmkIII I listened very careful to another thread on a local mailing list and found a very interesting hint: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=65621+0+archive/2003/freebsd-fs/20030413.freebsd-fs It describes that (back then) some disks have a "delayed write" feature. But much more important, there's a patch included which tells atacontrol how to spin disks down. I guess this was for ATAng. Is there any reason not to include that into ATAmkIII? Now that we have such a nice cpufreq meta driver in RELENG_6 I'd really love to see the hungry HD spin down, ideally managed by powerd ;) But even if the "delayed write" feature is problematic, the ataidle feature really should make it into ATAmkIII before 6-RELEASE IMHO... Thanks, -Harry
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