From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 29 18:45:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA00730 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:45:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tribunal.seqlogic.com (ip34.birmingham.mi.pub-ip.psi.net [38.11.226.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00719 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:45:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsecor@seqlogic.com) Received: from spaceball1 (spaceball1.seqlogic.com [10.0.0.2]) by tribunal.seqlogic.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA07782; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 21:48:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rsecor@seqlogic.com) Message-ID: <030c01be03ae$f37e8320$0200000a@spaceball1.seqlogic.com> Reply-To: "Richard Secor" From: "Richard Secor" To: , "Markus Holmberg" Subject: Re: Suffering from IDE hd spin downs (already turned off in BIOS) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 21:42:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hmmm... close to my new problem.... I had an 8.4gb Maxtor IDE in the puter.... put in 12gb (something close to this) Maxtor IDEs in the same puter.... the 2 12gb drives consistantly spin down if idele for what seems like 1/2 a second (probably a little closer to 5 to 15 secs in reality) the 8.4gb is ok and is working the same... try figuring that out note: all power manegment was turned off when this started. i since went into the bios and put power management on user defined. then i turned everything off. -=Richard Secor Sequential Logic=- -----Original Message----- From: Steve Friedrich To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG ; Markus Holmberg Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 10:03 Subject: Re: Suffering from IDE hd spin downs (already turned off in BIOS) >On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 07:05:03 +0100 (CET), Markus Holmberg wrote: > >>Hello! >> >>I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE for a while, without the previous two >>hd's never spinning down. >> >>But recently I installed a new IBM 8 Gb IDE hd, and now I'm suffering from >>*both* the new and the old ones spinning down after approx 15-30 minutes. >>It is very irritating as it locks up the system for a few seconds and also >>causes much wear and tear on the disks. >> >>I have double-checked my settings in the BIOS, and power management has >>always been turned off! (No APM etc) And the IDE HDD power management is >>specifically turned off. >> >>Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? I don't have apm compiled >>into my kernel. It's strange that the old hd's are also spinning down >>after the installation of the new hd.. >> >>I'd be very thankful to hear from someone with information on this issue! >> >>Best Regards, Markus Holmberg. >> > >You might want to remove the new drive to verify that the old drives >don't do it when the new drive is present. This could simply be >accomplished by pulling the power cable from the new drive. This is >just a sanity check to re-validate your situation. > >You also might like to post this question to -hardware or -hackers. >There may be others there that don't watch -questions. > >You could try sending the question to IBM via email, but I haven't had >much luck with them in the past in this regard. > >HTH >Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message