From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 19 15: 4:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperhost.net (ether.lightrealm.com [207.159.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE5AB14C3E for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:04:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from p4.a8.du.radix.net (p4.a8.du.radix.net [207.192.132.132]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA27742 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:01:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:01:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Seal To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Hard drive spindown Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On a recent slashdot discussion on the new ORB drives: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/04/19/2021246 - I got the EIDE version a little over a month ago. It installs into a linux machine flawlessly. The only problem that I had was couple weeks after I got the drive I heard a grinding noise. Turned out that linux never spun the drive down even once in that first 2 weeks and I never used it, so it ended up grinding off the cylinders off the far edge of the platter. I promptly exchanged it and set a spindown with hdparm and its been working beautifully ever since. I would definatly recommend this drive, just make sure that you either use the drive a lot or get it to spin down. Seems like the drive should move the head around all by itself to avoid damage like what happened to me though. - Is there a way to spin down the drive in FreeBSD? Thanks, ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message