On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:49:10AM -0800, Nate Eldredge wrote: > This makes sense in some ways. Suppose the drive is attached to a weird > ATA controller that FreeBSD doesn't know anything about. (Maybe it's > used by the other system in a dual-boot setup.) There's no way that > FreeBSD could send it a power-down sequence, but the BIOS could.
As long as you can send a ATA command directly to the disk, you can spin it down. Joerg _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
