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This script checks the standby status of disks in a FreeBSD system (e.g. FreeNAS). It can be used to check whether disks are spinning down properly. For each SATA and IDE hard drive, it will return either standby (0x00) or active/idle (0xff). The script needs to be run as root.
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freebsd-check-disk-standby-status.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
DEVICES=$(camcontrol devlist | sed 's/.*,\(.*\)).*/\1/')
for DEV in $DEVICES; do
    printf "%s: " "$DEV"
    camcontrol epc "$DEV" -c status -P
done
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