Re: ataidle and -current ?

Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> On Fri, 26 May 2006, Julian Elischer wrote:
>> the interface to control the deveices has changed. Theoretically you
>> could make a much simpler ataidle program now but no-one has done it..
> 
> I wrote ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/atautil.tar to manipulate ATA
> "APM" settings.  APM is drive managed power configuration.
> 
> I call a simple shell script via apmd to enabling idling when the laptop
> is on battery.
> 
> 'atautil' also supports reading the drive tempreature from IBM/Hitachi
> Travelstars.
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THanks a lot for a link :)

But :) sadly - it says the same as ataidle --

./atautil -f ad0 identify
atautil: IOCATAREQUEST: Inappropriate ioctl for device


at same time atacontrol says
atacontrol list
ATA channel 0:
    Master:  ad0 <ST9100822A/3.01> ATA/ATAPI revision 6
    Slave:       no device present


Yes, I've read warning in atautil :)
I'm running FreeBSD aldan.web.am 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #7: Thu
Apr  6 01:44:22 AMST 2006     root_at_aldan.web.am:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/nm
 amd64

kernel have removed lines relating to atapifd, atapist (tape driver).

What may be a problem in that case?

/Gaspar