Adam Vande More <amvandemore <at> gmail.com> writes: > ... > > # /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/ada0 > > > > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always > > - > > 779337 > > > > Likely the noise you are hearing roughly corresponds to Load_Cycle_Count. > Yours is quite high. You may be able to use sysutils/ataidle to disable > the parking like so: > > ataidle -P 0 /dev/ada0 > > Not entirely sure if this works on the ada driver, so if not you might want > to ask on freebsd-stable@ or boot up in a Live CD of Linux and use the > tools there. >
Dmitry and Adam, I think your description of excessive heads parking may be very close. I will try this remedy and will let you know. jb _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
