A1ctl for Windows: anyone willing to port this to Mac OS X?

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    The thing im most interested from that softtware is the ability to stop the hdd clicks. Cause after i put this 60 gig hdd in my acer one it clicks every once in a while and it tends to piss me off at times... i feel like installing xp just go get rid of it lol.
     
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    http://mckinlay.net.nz/hdapm/

    Set HDD APM to 255 with this?
     
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    APM is not supported by my 1.8" Toshiba drive :(
     
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    Ill check if it works on my samsung drive once I finish installing mac with boot 132 thanks for teh quick response thou.
     
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    Unfortunately, I do not think it is a simple port as the interface used on Windows is not available on the Mac.

    It would be nice if Acer would provide fan config options in the BIOS.
     
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    What do you mean?
     
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    Both Windows and Linux expose the interface to query and set the temp sensors / fan controllers. So writing the control mechanism for the fan comes down to reading / writing the appropriate config parameters.

    For Mac, it looks like you would need a kernel that enables the querying / setting of these parameters and then a custom kernel module that you could use as an interface. Neither of which is as simple as opening up /dev/port for reading and writing (as you would do on Linux).

    It would be great if I am mistaken and this ends up being much easier. I've done a lot of research over the last week and am fairly pessimistic about finding a solution. I would love to be proven wrong though...
     
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    Superhai has made a kext which enables speedstep on vanilla kernels and it also allows you to manually change clock speed and voltage.
    So I guess he knows how to get to these parameters and it would make writing fan control for os x a lot easier when you'd contact him I think.
     
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    Anyone working on this or contacted Superhai??
     
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    Bump!

    Any news on this?
     
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