Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:15:01 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work Message-ID: <1298970901.2888.5.camel@core.nessbank> In-Reply-To: <4D6CAC83.8050003@gmail.com> References: <4D6CAC83.8050003@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 09:21 +0100, David Demelier wrote: > But I can still hear the noise every 10 seconds, I think atacontrol does > not totally close the APM feature of the device. atacontrol's spindown setting doesn't change anything in the disk itself: it just controls a timer in the ad(4) driver which sends a spindown command when it expires. You'll need to keep using ataidle to fix the APM value. -- Bruce Cran
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