From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 16 07:23:08 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417E5106564A for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 07:23:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F363D8FC1A for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 07:23:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [93.104.81.109] (helo=localhost.my.domain) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PeMx7-0002pt-Q2 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:23:05 +0100 Received: from localhost.my.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p0G7OKpI003767 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:24:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id p0G7OJwk003766 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:24:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:24:13 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110116072411.GA3732@tinyCurrent> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Originating-IP: 93.104.81.109 Subject: Acer Aspire One D250 disk spin-down problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 07:23:08 -0000 Hello, I have a laptop Acer Aspire One D250 running 9-CURRENT and it seems that after ~12 secs the disk is spinning down and is coming up again if an action, like a command to start, requires this; I have checked with atacontrol(8) but as far as I can see spin down is disabled: # atacontrol list ATA channel 0: Master: no device present Slave: no device present ATA channel 1: Master: no device present Slave: no device present ATA channel 2: Master: ad4 SATA revision 2.x Slave: no device present ATA channel 3: Master: no device present Slave: no device present # atacontrol spindown ad4 ad4: idle spin down disabled As well the BIOS has no visible option for this. I want to disable this, what could I do? Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.unixarea.de/