From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 22 03:46:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA18869 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 03:46:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from well.apcs.com.au (well.apcs.com.au [203.35.4.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA18793 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 03:44:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keith@well.apcs.com.au) Received: (from keith@localhost) by well.apcs.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA19030; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 20:40:23 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from keith) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 20:40:23 +1000 (EST) Reply-To: keith@apcs.com.au Organization: Australia Power Control Systems P/L From: Keith Anderson To: Graeme.Cross@sci.monash.edu.au Subject: RE: IDE hard drive spin-down problem Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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): > wd0: 1549MB (3173184 sectors), 3148 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): > 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 error 1 > > 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 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