From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 25 02:48:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2316816A41C for ; Wed, 25 May 2005 02:48:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from luyt@ovosoft.nl) Received: from smtpq2.home.nl (smtpq2.home.nl [213.51.128.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C44C743D49 for ; Wed, 25 May 2005 02:48:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from luyt@ovosoft.nl) Received: from [213.51.128.135] (port=53705 helo=smtp4.home.nl) by smtpq2.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DalwW-0005OR-5j; Wed, 25 May 2005 04:48:24 +0200 Received: from cc351901-a.groni1.gr.home.nl ([82.73.114.87]:34195 helo=localhost.invalid) by smtp4.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DalwU-0005A6-Lh; Wed, 25 May 2005 04:48:22 +0200 From: Luyt To: Benjamin Keating , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 04:51:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <781e2bc0050523111214a8ff5@mail.gmail.com> <20050523205601.GA11447@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050523205601.GA11447@slackbox.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505250451.09666.luyt@ovosoft.nl> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Neem contact op met support@home.nl voor meer informatie X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Cc: Subject: Re: Tuning Hard Disks 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: Wed, 25 May 2005 02:48:26 -0000 Interesting. I did an 'atacontrol cap 0 0' and this came up (see below). It tells that my disk has 'SMART' support, but it isnt enabled. Any idea how I can enable it? ATA channel 0, Master, device ad0: Protocol Serial ATA v1.0 device model Maxtor 6Y200M0 serial number Y6988PLE firmware revision YAR511W0 cylinders 16383 heads 16 sectors/track 63 lba supported 268435455 sectors lba48 supported 398297088 sectors dma supported overlap not supported Feature Support Enable Value Vendor write cache yes yes read ahead yes yes SATA NCQ no - 0/0x00 SMART yes no microcode download yes yes security yes no power management yes yes advanced power management yes no 0/0x00 automatic acoustic management yes yes 254/0xFE 192/0xC0 -- "The ability of the OSS process to collect and harness the collective IQ of thousands of individuals across the Internet is simply amazing." - Vinod Vallopillil http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween4.php