From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 10 15:46:33 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E4670B for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:46:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-f182.google.com (mail-ie0-f182.google.com [209.85.223.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B7028FC19 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:46:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f182.google.com with SMTP id k10so1533717iea.13 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:46:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=0DeZhkIE6g0QaFApD+1oWBLmiPtGTB4tqTJhgpsuSDk=; b=0ChZPXfXk0yMoLcMs+hnSzCu0/3V70B49374/YdC20/RfqRKQLuF/d/r6Ca8/tMHna UaIvrRz5wbTCRbTXzDekmgLC548CUBZjBk/Qm6heVjj0NbNEhFscx+OEYD2ykLfN8/5v 6ZS8+cfThgnJUyLg2bvNb6Fn1FFAZxSoRkkr1MCYX0YbVR1+KHG+wjppfPCweQdHBdyx 0tJTqrcLj2LyPkQjVKbiVQYI5gP01CIn9ybWzFysMiAcXOngkaYRfTwVkx9qmr1pzuz6 b5egSDJOUhRuwe1/aXm9kxcA3CrifZCIpK2zUS0CmDXZ/Z99kRa2bt+ITqZw/FVLSd2F nj/A== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.46.199 with SMTP id x7mr5826387igm.19.1349883986869; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:46:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.53.73 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:46:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <86lifhma8g.fsf@venux.xbsd.name> References: <86lifhma8g.fsf@venux.xbsd.name> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:46:26 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Do I need to use sysutils/ataidle to avoid high LCC for my hard drive? From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:46:33 -0000 On 8 October 2012 08:14, Denise H. G. wrote: > Hi list. > > I am currently running FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE on my laptop. And I am > wondering if I still need to use sysutiles/ataidle to avoid high Load > Cyle Count for my hard drive. Is there still a need to run this utility > to avoid LCC under FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE? > I believe so, as my Load Cycle Count still increments fairly quickly when let. Though as long as you have "options ATA_CAM" (it appears to be in GENERIC, so you should, I suppose) you can also use variations on: /sbin/camcontrol cmd ada0 -a "EF 85 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00" to shut off naps & such as well. -- --