Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 21:42:34 -0500 From: "Richard Secor" <rsecor@seqlogic.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Markus Holmberg" <saska@acc.umu.se> Subject: Re: Suffering from IDE hd spin downs (already turned off in BIOS) Message-ID: <030c01be03ae$f37e8320$0200000a@spaceball1.seqlogic.com>
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hmmm... close to my new problem....
I had an 8.4gb Maxtor IDE in the puter....
put in 12gb (something close to this) Maxtor IDEs in the same puter....
the 2 12gb drives consistantly spin down if idele for what seems like 1/2 a
second
(probably a little closer to 5 to 15 secs in reality)
the 8.4gb is ok and is working the same...
try figuring that out
note: all power manegment was turned off when this started.
i since went into the bios and put power management on user
defined.
then i turned everything off.
-=Richard Secor
Sequential Logic=-
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Markus
Holmberg <saska@acc.umu.se>
Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 10:03
Subject: Re: Suffering from IDE hd spin downs (already turned off in BIOS)
>On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 07:05:03 +0100 (CET), Markus Holmberg wrote:
>
>>Hello!
>>
>>I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE for a while, without the previous two
>>hd's never spinning down.
>>
>>But recently I installed a new IBM 8 Gb IDE hd, and now I'm suffering from
>>*both* the new and the old ones spinning down after approx 15-30 minutes.
>>It is very irritating as it locks up the system for a few seconds and also
>>causes much wear and tear on the disks.
>>
>>I have double-checked my settings in the BIOS, and power management has
>>always been turned off! (No APM etc) And the IDE HDD power management is
>>specifically turned off.
>>
>>Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? I don't have apm compiled
>>into my kernel. It's strange that the old hd's are also spinning down
>>after the installation of the new hd..
>>
>>I'd be very thankful to hear from someone with information on this issue!
>>
>>Best Regards, Markus Holmberg.
>>
>
>You might want to remove the new drive to verify that the old drives
>don't do it when the new drive is present. This could simply be
>accomplished by pulling the power cable from the new drive. This is
>just a sanity check to re-validate your situation.
>
>You also might like to post this question to -hardware or -hackers.
>There may be others there that don't watch -questions.
>
>You could try sending the question to IBM via email, but I haven't had
>much luck with them in the past in this regard.
>
>HTH
>Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes.
>
>
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