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Date:      Wed, 12 May 1999 12:53:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Eric Blood <e.blood@citr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Drive noise
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905121252280.23756-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <14130.27194.311593.355249@pearl.citr.com>

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On Thu, 6 May 1999, Eric Blood wrote:

> I've just installed FreeBSD 3.1 on a laptop and it sounds like the
> heads of the drive are getting parked a lot.  I've tried tracking down 
> how to increase the update time, but for some reason, sysctl doesn't
> think there's a kern.update.  How do I go about setting it?

Parked or spinning down?  If you wantto turn spindown off, do it in the
system BIOS.

Is apm enabled?

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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