On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 08:56:29PM +0200, Leonardo Taccari wrote: > No idea if that will increase/decrease disk life span but I think > that `atactl <device> setidle 0' and/or `atactl <device> setstandby 0' > is what you're looking for!
Thanks. Actually setidle and setstandby to 0 did not stop clucking sound, to put objectively Load Cycle Count kept growing. But atactl wd0 apm set 253 did stop the nuisance completely. Probably I should put this command in /etc/rc.local [I recollect doing an equivalent thing on Linux, but for strange reasons, the apm setting used to bounce back to 1 automatically after a while, may be due to some events. Hence I had to resort to a loop that just queried smart status every half minute and launch such loop in /etc/rc.local] Thanks again for pointing to atactl. Mayuresh.
