Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751136AbVKTByO (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:54:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751139AbVKTByO (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:54:14 -0500 Received: from smtpout1.uol.com.br ([200.221.4.192]:16882 "EHLO smtp.uol.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751136AbVKTByO (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:54:14 -0500 Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 23:54:00 -0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito To: Alan Cox Cc: Marc Perkel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Does Linux support powering down SATA drives? Message-ID: <20051120015359.GD20828@ime.usp.br> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Cox , Marc Perkel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <437F63C1.6010507@perkel.com> <1132426887.19692.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1132426887.19692.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 921 Lines: 25 On Nov 19 2005, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sad, 2005-11-19 at 09:41 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: > > Trying to save power consumption. > > SATA not yet, USB you could however. And what about Firewire? I see that MacOS X automatically spins down the drive when I unmount it from a Mac. Would it be possible to have this feature available for userspace (where I would think would be the proper place for the policy controlling this thing)? Thanks for any comments, Rog?rio Brito. -- Rog?rio Brito : rbrito@ime.usp.br : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/