Subject: Re: SHARK: Powersaving IDE drives
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-arm32
Date: 09/29/2000 10:18:20
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 01:04:39AM -0400, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> 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.

Yes, it does.

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