atacontrol spindown 0 does not work

2011-03-01 Thread David Demelier
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

Re: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work

2011-03-01 Thread Bruce Cran
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)

Re: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work

2011-03-01 Thread Matthias Apitz
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

Re: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work

2011-03-01 Thread Bruce Cran
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