Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 08:07:51 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to prevent HDD spin-down. Message-ID: <20180306070751.GA16403@sh4-5.1blu.de> In-Reply-To: <4a967d5f-0f83-e23e-ded3-1c89d2469c0d@gmail.com> References: <99f2e64c-577c-20e1-b595-9b8391efaf8e@gmail.com> <4a967d5f-0f83-e23e-ded3-1c89d2469c0d@gmail.com>
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El día Tuesday, March 06, 2018 a las 07:30:59AM +0100, Johan Hendriks escribió: > Op 06/03/2018 om 03:37 schreef J.B.: > > Hey. I purchased a new WD laptop hard disk drive, but it keeps > > spinning down and parking its heads after 25 seconds of inactivity. > > How can I disable that feature or extend the timeout to something less > > idiotic? I checked the BIOS, but there's no setting for it. I booted > > into a Linux (Debian-based) OS duel-booting on the same disk, and the > > disk doesn't spin down, so either Linux is doing something to override > > that feature, or FreeBSD is doing something to enable it (possibly a > > package I installed). Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ You might want to check sysutils/ataidle and see if this helps. matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, ⌂ http://www.unixarea.de/ 📱 +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub
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