atacontrol spindown 0 does not work
Hello, I don't like to hear the spin down from my hard drive, it does it every 10 seconds approximately. I used ataidle -P 0 /dev/ad0 to disable it and it works. When I saw there was a atacontrol command for this, I tried it, so I removed ataidle and I tried : markand@Melon ~ $ sudo atacontrol spindown ad0 0 markand@Melon ~ $ sudo atacontrol spindown ad0 ad0: idle spin down disabled But I can still hear the noise every 10 seconds, I think atacontrol does not totally close the APM feature of the device. Do you have any clue? Cheers, -- David Demelier ___ 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
Re: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work
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. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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
Re: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work
El día Tuesday, March 01, 2011 a las 09:15:01AM +, 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 g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ ___ 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
Re: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:47 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: I'm wondering why you would prefere atacontrol? I think everyone's been looking for an official solution. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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
