From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 22 07:20:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA06093 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 07:20:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA06086 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 07:20:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-121.laker.net [208.0.233.21]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id KAA04833; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:19:21 -0400 Message-Id: <199810221419.KAA04833@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Graeme Cross" , "Graeme.Cross@sci.monash.edu.au" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:51:47 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: IDE hard drive spin-down problem Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:44:29 +1000 (EST), Graeme Cross wrote: >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. You could put a little swap space on it, and/or your /tmp. I'd like to see a better solution than this, and I'm sure you do to. But in the meantime... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message