From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 15 09:37:00 2006 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 332A816A420 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:37:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 255F043D77 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:36:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id k0F9apvi016275 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 01:36:52 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.0.21] (dsl254-013-145.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.13.145]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id k0F9aoAD019746 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 01:36:50 -0800 Message-ID: <43CA17B2.1020301@u.washington.edu> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 01:36:50 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060113) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <43C9ADF4.6090605@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <43C9ADF4.6090605@u.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: Issues with hard disks and spindown 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: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:37:00 -0000 Garrett Cooper wrote: > Hello, > It appears that after my rearranging my case a bit that my hard > drives are spinning up and down quite a bit (in particular one drive). > After checking the temperature of the drives with my hand, it appears > that everything is running quite smoothly, so there must be something > else software-wise that's causing my system to near constantly poll > the drives. > For the sake of power and for the sake of my hard drives I have > enabled apmd, which should be handling power management, but in fact > isn't really doing the right thing I think. > My computer is a desktop, so I realize that apm is used primarily > for laptops. Is there any distinguishing point in FreeBSD that doesn't > allow for this, or like Linux, by enabling apmd does it allow me to > automatically suspend hard disks and how? I just want to save my > hardware from undue abuse, either way and save some electricity while > I'm at it :). > Thanks, > -Garrett Nevermind. It turns out the scsi harddisk may be failing. So sad ;(... -Garrett