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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 2019 19:36:18 +0200
From:      "Matthias R." <exoflux@posteo.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   thoughts aftRe: silent disk drive
Message-ID:  <20190619173618.GA38102@exoflux.speedport.ip>
In-Reply-To: <20190615000134.GA31519@exoflux.speedport.ip>
References:  <20190615000134.GA31519@exoflux.speedport.ip>

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Hello,

Thank You for Your recommendations here!
I was gambling with camcontrol, but with your tip to look into Top -St I found
cam and syncer coming up again frequently. I found sysctl and did
kern.cam.ada.default_timeout: 30 -> 300
and gave my 
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 02:01:34AM +0200, Matthias R. wrote:
> camcontrol sleep ada0
 again
Wow, the effect is marvelous! I have time to read with the hard drive spinned
down for a hole lot longer...

well of course, nothing else can be done in the meantime really, so probably 
there some sofisticated methods out there.
On some other machine years ago...
... I remember having set up a ramdisk to the spare hard disk access, but for now
I am satisfied.
> 
> greet
> Matthias 
> 



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