Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:28:44 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Acer Aspire One D250 disk spin-down problem Message-ID: <20110116152844.GA1939@tinyCurrent> In-Reply-To: <20110116100539.00007e0a@unknown> References: <20110116072411.GA3732@tinyCurrent> <20110116100539.00007e0a@unknown>
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El día Sunday, January 16, 2011 a las 10:05:39AM +0000, Bruce Cran escribió: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:24:13 +0100 > Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > > > Master: ad4 <WDC WD2500BEVT-22ZCT0/11.01A11> SATA revision 2.x > > > As well the BIOS has no visible option for this. I want to disable > > this, what could I do? > > Since it's a WDC disk I guess it's one of the "green" ones. These have > a short default timeout after which they park the heads. I think you'd > need to run the wdidle3.exe application to disable the internal timer, Thanks, but wdidle3.exe is no option because the laptop does not know any Win* partition anymore :-) > but it may just be a default APM setting that can be changed from > within FreeBSD using sysutils/ataidle and the -P switch. but this does the trick: # ataidle -P 128 /dev/ad4 APM set to 128 (and I have it set now via rc.conf); Thanks for your help matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/
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