Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 10:43:06 +0100 From: Matthias Meyser <meyser@xenet.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to prevent HDD spin-down. Message-ID: <eac51955-98fd-88bc-9a00-cb639429b182@xenet.de> In-Reply-To: <99f2e64c-577c-20e1-b595-9b8391efaf8e@gmail.com> References: <99f2e64c-577c-20e1-b595-9b8391efaf8e@gmail.com>
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Am 06.03.2018 um 03:37 schrieb J.B.:
> 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.
>
Perhaps
camcontrol standby -t0 /dev/ada0
camcontrol idle -t0 /dev/ada0
CU
Matthias
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