Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 18:37:07 -0800 From: "J.B." <non.euc.geo.1854@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to prevent HDD spin-down. Message-ID: <99f2e64c-577c-20e1-b595-9b8391efaf8e@gmail.com>
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Hey. I purchased a new WD laptop hard disk drive, but it keeps spinning down and parking its heads after 25 seconds of inactivity. How can I disable that feature or extend the timeout to something less idiotic? I checked the BIOS, but there's no setting for it. I booted into a Linux (Debian-based) OS duel-booting on the same disk, and the disk doesn't spin down, so either Linux is doing something to override that feature, or FreeBSD is doing something to enable it (possibly a package I installed). Thanks.
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