Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 20:55:54 -0800 From: "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com> To: "J.B." <non.euc.geo.1854@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to prevent HDD spin-down. Message-ID: <CALeGphy2N7ivgQQK8t9bUf1NpkeMm0VWRUWFU=Q2Tv56eegRMA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <045b9b33-5982-c19c-d009-31bfd2c8fd7d@gmail.com> References: <mailman.106.1520337602.10949.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <045b9b33-5982-c19c-d009-31bfd2c8fd7d@gmail.com>
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I use this to make those seagates quit "chirping" /sbin/camcontrol cmd drive# -a "EF 85 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00" On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:19 PM, J.B. <non.euc.geo.1854@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/06/2018 04:00 AM, freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org wrote: > >> Re: How to prevent HDD spin-down. >> > > Thank you to everyone for your helpful tips and suggestions. You make > FreeBSD great. :) > > I tried the camcontrol suggestion first since it didn't require installing > anything, but it didn't seem to work. Tried sysutils/ataidle next since it > allows keeping spindown but with a reasonable timeout, and it seems to have > worked perfectly: ataidle -P 127 /dev/ada0. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe > @freebsd.org" >
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