Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 01:36:50 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Issues with hard disks and spindown Message-ID: <43CA17B2.1020301@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <43C9ADF4.6090605@u.washington.edu> References: <43C9ADF4.6090605@u.washington.edu>
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Garrett Cooper wrote: > Hello, > It appears that after my rearranging my case a bit that my hard > drives are spinning up and down quite a bit (in particular one drive). > After checking the temperature of the drives with my hand, it appears > that everything is running quite smoothly, so there must be something > else software-wise that's causing my system to near constantly poll > the drives. > For the sake of power and for the sake of my hard drives I have > enabled apmd, which should be handling power management, but in fact > isn't really doing the right thing I think. > My computer is a desktop, so I realize that apm is used primarily > for laptops. Is there any distinguishing point in FreeBSD that doesn't > allow for this, or like Linux, by enabling apmd does it allow me to > automatically suspend hard disks and how? I just want to save my > hardware from undue abuse, either way and save some electricity while > I'm at it :). > Thanks, > -Garrett Nevermind. It turns out the scsi harddisk may be failing. So sad ;(... -Garrett
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