> Some answers to your questions: > Its a Jetway IPC board (J7F4K1) with a VIA CN700 chipset and a VIA > VT8237R Plus chip set. > The flash is a IDE flash connected to the IDE port > The (real) SATA disks (WD750) are connected to the onboard SATA ports.
I don't think OpenSolaris has a native sata driver for the VIA chipset. But since you apparently can use the s-ata disks connected to the VIA s-ata controller using p-ata legacy controller emulation (using Solaris' ata driver), the /kernel/drv/ata.conf standby change should work. After changing the /kernel/drv/ata.conf file, did you reboot? The standby setting is read only once, at driver initialization time, and is sent to the hdd. I just booted an old Pentium-II system, with an Intel p-ata controller, with snv_87, changed standby=30 in /kernel/drv/ata.conf, rebooted, and after reboot the hdd did in fact power down after some time (no more noise :-). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
