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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.
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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.
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