pkg-descr

ATAidle is a utility to set the power management features
of ata hard drives. This includes idle and standby timeouts,
APM and acoustic level settings, and it can show details about
the installed devices.

Author: Bruce Cran
WWW: http://www.cran.org.uk/bruce/software/ataidle/

pkg-message

Note: ataidle options and rc startup settings
have changed in version 2.

Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf to enable ataidle:

ataidle_enable (bool): set to NO by default.
Set to YES to enable ataidle.
ataidle_devices: list of devices on which to run ataidle
ataidle_adX: parameters to pass to ataidle(8)

Example:
ataidle_enable="YES"
ataidle_devices="ad0"
ataidle_ad0="-I 60 -S 120 -A 127 -P 254"