Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 20:40:23 +1000 (EST) From: Keith Anderson <keith@apcs.com.au> To: Graeme.Cross@sci.monash.edu.au Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: IDE hard drive spin-down problem Message-ID: <XFMail.981022204023.keith@apcs.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981022182405.23592A-100000@babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au>
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Hi Graeme Have a look at your bios on boot up You may have some green settings turned on Keith On 22-Oct-98 Graeme Cross wrote: > I have a system with two IDE drives, where the second drive spins down > after 10 or so minutes of computer idle-time. > > It is very annoying because the system will lock up while it waits for the > second drive to spin back up, which can take a couple of seconds. > (There is also the issue of additional wear and tear on the drive as it > spins up and down.) > > These are the drives, as shown by dmesg: > > wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa > wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <WDC AC21600H> > wd0: 1549MB (3173184 sectors), 3148 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): <WDC AC2540H> > wd1: 515MB (1056384 sectors), 1048 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > > I also see these messages in /var/log/messages: > > Oct 3 21:17:09 guava /kernel: wd1: interrupt timeout: > Oct 3 21:17:09 guava /kernel: wd1: status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 1<no_dam> > > Which I assume is the kernel complaining that it couldn't read from the > drive, because it was in the process of spinning back up. > > I am running FreeBSD 2.2.7. > > I have power management at the BIOS level turned off, and the first drive > does not ever spin down. > > I also have APM support turned off in /etc/rc.conf. > > Is there a way that I can force the drive to not spin down? I suppose I am > looking for a tool like Linux's hdparm? A search of the mailing list > archives didn't yield any solutions. > > Thanks in advance, > Graeme > > -- > Graeme Cross -- Water Studies Centre, Monash University > > Random thought #99 (Collect all 237) > The gene pool could use a little chlorine. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Keith Anderson <keith@apcs.com.au> Date: 22-Oct-98 Time: 20:37:49 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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