On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 09:24:26PM +0300, Petri Koistinen wrote:

> There is a nice tool for AmigaOS at aminet called HDOff. It will turn
> harddrive motor off after specified time. Similar tool on NetBSD would
> be quite nice too.
>  ...
> Unfortunately HDOff does not come with source code and I have no
> idea how to put this idea in kernel. What I know is that turning on/off motor
> can be simply done via normal IDE-cable by sending message to harddrive.
> 
> So what do you think about the idea?

I can't find a trace of my answer in my mail box file, so just in case,
I'll answer it now:

"atactl" does what you want, if you're using the wdc driver.

Read the manual page for details.

Regards,
	Ignatios