From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Mar 6 02:37:10 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39CEFF44790 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 02:37:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from non.euc.geo.1854@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pf0-x22e.google.com (mail-pf0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c00::22e]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A7F737C16A for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 02:37:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from non.euc.geo.1854@gmail.com) Received: by mail-pf0-x22e.google.com with SMTP id u5so8155034pfh.6 for ; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:37:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=to:from:subject:message-id:disposition-notification-to:date :user-agent:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-language; bh=MnN7vEza3FvAq90SWIqq14Lz5CbgPAiE/4OMo4kn354=; b=JGpboWV7F7X2QJidEM48jPVRUuhKZr+4IIj5e0H5nAo7oHUQ+VHTaERIS8e6c2wyaL OsCtAsU8od0pP6wubKJ9hmA71K/T6mm8kSho33mSS9BAJACghZ1m5HlLCJ2KgauUAhmg X0BVwaD7Ic/Jc6UpOikRyDqns9qeYup8WfCdoWtTqo9mGw5Bi1ZPzLAANhBs+5k3VqhK GnIruN6X3PpmDY9teMPRJsRZzqQYVH2fe86lHn8hWnsPHgFvl82tsG65jbP89avne3nX oTZZussT+gIOLY9Vg5h8i1fssh8hUXMJit7pdyheRX5wMha1iP7LBlOpaGhYwjKgsbtX xg7Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:to:from:subject:message-id :disposition-notification-to:date:user-agent:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-language; bh=MnN7vEza3FvAq90SWIqq14Lz5CbgPAiE/4OMo4kn354=; b=gMM551EoxoYN+eWhmEsOu7SRmllercz0wbWRAs+fTdsNa7iHt6MOjxij8grjmj8urF fjfi5dsFLZfha4n79oScIr+gUYTceDnS1FgNDj7Ak6enWRXx5k2ar3pGHaoG+sVehcFv 14JFopNC45babwWgexDtdMIl64dAHWK5JdnSEvPiu8lUOlJ1rCnLcfNGxQ5ZZarZwj3M LkFFvfM/IyrNRA6v+/oMPmxcG+8Lc4saSN1SbhZtI0qzQesQsivGnz814c6ggNcViKZo hqxNCkgQ4a452Cq7VBWdZNDpxd2A6k/UlOGG8MxQ+kPozRAtN4Jiybchai40/YfeYBs3 k0+A== X-Gm-Message-State: APf1xPDf7rOKFaFiXHdUuYTnIeo4de78pIshriOhTjehG1lgasvOP2pB +7C2HphEeoYjU8Kx0279yB3K/w== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AG47ELsjYA3GXbTWedbxK50HroD1rY+6EQ8D5rrIvNYf3B9IVN8VD62yvuxcRbMUrf9OA1ak5DEgbA== X-Received: by 10.98.237.12 with SMTP id u12mr17231911pfh.72.1520303828632; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:37:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.7] ([35.129.64.201]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id q6sm22674992pga.37.2018.03.05.18.37.07 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:37:08 -0800 (PST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "J.B." Subject: How to prevent HDD spin-down. Message-ID: <99f2e64c-577c-20e1-b595-9b8391efaf8e@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 18:37:07 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 02:37:10 -0000 Hey. I purchased a new WD laptop hard disk drive, but it keeps spinning down and parking its heads after 25 seconds of inactivity. How can I disable that feature or extend the timeout to something less idiotic? I checked the BIOS, but there's no setting for it. I booted into a Linux (Debian-based) OS duel-booting on the same disk, and the disk doesn't spin down, so either Linux is doing something to override that feature, or FreeBSD is doing something to enable it (possibly a package I installed). Thanks.