From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 9 13:46:28 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31BA316A400 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:46:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists-fbsd@shadypond.com) Received: from mx-outbound01.easydns.com (mailout.easydns.com [205.210.42.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101A413C480 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:46:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists-fbsd@shadypond.com) Received: from slider.shadypond.com (69-12-173-117.static.humboldt1.com [69.12.173.117]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx-outbound01.easydns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AED57FCF for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 09:46:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from slider.shadypond.com (slider.shadypond.com [192.168.1.11]) by slider.shadypond.com (postoffice) with ESMTP id 1C20EB65E8 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:46:07 +0000 (UTC) From: Pollywog To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:46:05 +0000 References: <200707091243.l69ChkBS002645@shadow.sixcompanies.com> In-Reply-To: <200707091243.l69ChkBS002645@shadow.sixcompanies.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707091346.05923.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> Subject: Re: 6.2-stable power management X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:46:28 -0000 On Monday 09 July 2007 12:43:45 J.D. Bronson wrote: > Is there any way to verify ALL power management is disabled? > I have totally disabled it in my BIOS and I have > totally disabled it in the hard drives... > > Yet I keep hearing a drive spin down and then immediately back up > over and over (at times). > > If I install a different OS on this same machine, this does not > happen..so I am thinking something within 6.2-stable is doing this? > > any thoughts or ideas? I am not having this problem with FreeBSD 6.2, which I recently installed on a laptop in place of kubuntu and I DID have this problem with the same laptop when it was running kubuntu. I did not change any BIOS settings. The laptop would wake me up with all the noise. With FreeBSD 6.2 the laptop stays quiet if I leave it on overnight. FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Apr 26 17:40:53 UTC 2007