>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au> writes:

    Daniel> How did you go trying "idle" instead of "standby"?

Something interesting happened. I rebooted into single user mode,

and did:

atactl wd0 setidle 5

After five seconds, I did:

atactl wd0 checkpower


It said: 

Current powert status: Standby mode


So looks like idle == standby on my hardware.

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~Cherry