On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:07:49PM +0000, Vince Hoffman wrote: > Kostik Belousov wrote: > > I noted that when idle, my laptop HDD increases the Load_Cycle_Count > > (193) approx. each ten seconds, as reported by smartctl. Have recently > > read about the Ubuntu and APM mode for hard drives, I searched for the > > tool to tune APM (that has functionality similar to linux' hdparm -B). > > > > It seems that FreeBSD does not have a tool ? Am I wrong ? In case I did > > not make a mistake, below is the patch that allows to manage APM state > > of the hard drive using atacontrol. > > > /usr/ports/sysutils/ataidle exists and is usable, (I use it on my > laptop.) However it seems it could be a sensible thing to have in > atacontrol. I never looked into it, and I have heard that it has an architectural problems. BTW intent of my patch is to have the ability to turn APM off. Can ataidle do this ? > > Vince > > > Any comments or objections against committing this ? > > http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/ata_setcap.1.patch
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