freebsd-nq/sbin/atacontrol
Poul-Henning Kamp 72d945abcc Add a "spindown" facility to ata-disks: If no requests have been received
for a configurable number of seconds, spin the disk down.  Spin it back
up on the next request.

Notice that the timeout is only armed by a request, so to spin down a
disk you may have to do:

	atacontrol spindown ad10 5
	dd if=/dev/ad10 of=/dev/null count=1

To disable spindown, set timeout to zero:

	atacontrol spindown ad10 0

In order to debug any trouble caused, this code is somewhat noisy on the
console.

Enabling spindown on a disk containing / or /var/log/messages is not
going to do anything sensible.

Spinning a disk up and down all the time will wear it out, use sensibly.

Approved by:	sos
2008-03-17 10:33:23 +00:00
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atacontrol.8 Add a "spindown" facility to ata-disks: If no requests have been received 2008-03-17 10:33:23 +00:00
atacontrol.c Add a "spindown" facility to ata-disks: If no requests have been received 2008-03-17 10:33:23 +00:00
Makefile Make this WARNS=6 clean by: 2003-11-05 19:20:41 +00:00