From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Mar 6 07:35:21 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26952F3A705 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 07:35:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from sh4-5.1blu.de (sh4-5.1blu.de [178.254.11.41]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BD4FE87A08 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 07:35:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ftp51246-2575596 by sh4-5.1blu.de with local (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1et6hT-0006fy-Kd for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 08:07:51 +0100 Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 08:07:51 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to prevent HDD spin-down. Message-ID: <20180306070751.GA16403@sh4-5.1blu.de> Reply-To: Matthias Apitz Mail-Followup-To: Matthias Apitz , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <99f2e64c-577c-20e1-b595-9b8391efaf8e@gmail.com> <4a967d5f-0f83-e23e-ded3-1c89d2469c0d@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4a967d5f-0f83-e23e-ded3-1c89d2469c0d@gmail.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT r314251 (amd64) X-message-flag: Mails containing HTML will not be read! Please send only plain text. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 07:35:21 -0000 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