From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 15 17:31:36 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55B811065677 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:31:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from shell0.rawbw.com (shell0.rawbw.com [198.144.192.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2998E8FC1A for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:31:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.syrec.org (stunnel@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell0.rawbw.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o2FHVZqs010884 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:31:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Message-ID: <4B9E6EF5.80100@rawbw.com> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:31:33 -0700 From: Yuri User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20100206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Is hard drive spindown functionality broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: yuri@rawbw.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:31:36 -0000 Last night I ran the command: atacontrol spindown ad10 60 on my desktop and similar one on my laptop. In the morning I found that laptop rebooted overnight, and desktop was still functional, but I suddenly got flooded with the message: fwohci0: device physically ejected? then system froze. I never use anything related to fwohci. Does anybody use spindown? What might be the problem? Yuri