From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 16 15:27:31 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA021065679 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:27:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46AF58FC1B for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:27:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [93.104.81.109] (helo=localhost.my.domain) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PeUVt-0006OB-Fi; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:27:30 +0100 Received: from localhost.my.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p0GFSjmr001975; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:28:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id p0GFSj9a001974; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:28:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:28:44 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: Bruce Cran Message-ID: <20110116152844.GA1939@tinyCurrent> References: <20110116072411.GA3732@tinyCurrent> <20110116100539.00007e0a@unknown> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20110116100539.00007e0a@unknown> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Originating-IP: 93.104.81.109 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Acer Aspire One D250 disk spin-down problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:27:31 -0000 El día Sunday, January 16, 2011 a las 10:05:39AM +0000, Bruce Cran escribió: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:24:13 +0100 > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > Master: ad4 SATA revision 2.x > > > As well the BIOS has no visible option for this. I want to disable > > this, what could I do? > > Since it's a WDC disk I guess it's one of the "green" ones. These have > a short default timeout after which they park the heads. I think you'd > need to run the wdidle3.exe application to disable the internal timer, Thanks, but wdidle3.exe is no option because the laptop does not know any Win* partition anymore :-) > but it may just be a default APM setting that can be changed from > within FreeBSD using sysutils/ataidle and the -P switch. but this does the trick: # ataidle -P 128 /dev/ad4 APM set to 128 (and I have it set now via rc.conf); Thanks for your help matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.unixarea.de/