Subject: Re: SHARK: Powersaving IDE drives
To: Jeremy Cooper <jcooper@icplanet.com>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
List: port-arm32
Date: 09/29/2000 01:04:39
Jeremy Cooper <jcooper@icplanet.com> writes:

> I have a Shark running with an internal laptop IDE drive and would like to
> know if there's a way we can use the APM code in the i386 port to make it
> possible to spin down the drive when it's not in use.  Does anyone have any
> ideas how to go about this?

I think you want atactl(8) more than apm for this use, and it ought to
work on a shark.

        - Nathan