Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 11:47:03 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work Message-ID: <20110301104703.GA19987@sh4-5.1blu.de> In-Reply-To: <1298970901.2888.5.camel@core.nessbank> References: <4D6CAC83.8050003@gmail.com> <1298970901.2888.5.camel@core.nessbank>
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El día Tuesday, March 01, 2011 a las 09:15:01AM +0000, Bruce Cran escribió: > 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. To the OP: I have to use ataidle as well on an Acer Aspire D250 laptop to switch-off the spindown of the disk... I'm wondering why you would prefere atacontrol? Thanks 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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