From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Mar 6 21:19:46 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 8E660F30569 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 21:19:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from non.euc.geo.1854@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pg0-x230.google.com (mail-pg0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c05::230]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0BACF6C347 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 21:19:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from non.euc.geo.1854@gmail.com) Received: by mail-pg0-x230.google.com with SMTP id m19so35415pgn.1 for ; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:19:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:disposition-notification-to :date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding :content-language; bh=Sq5FkH++KZcWNUCYr7hgwfdhyMb3mhQ2qqWBtVdi88o=; b=J/hKCP2fwaGtb3pxM6taHjrxvRanmRpVTJeEzHCvXxq8dKTMmrSEstj9IKLMK+mIf/ adnJFPIXAsNOLywIiGc0vwJlmalcvfmudiedgVwviqXMAn/2J0XbYfxXONJ5UYIGDVY1 dMhQBdPEO0usTmoNT2Ies7GH3M8M94l9qzhK21z0DDBdMJN2lEks/gpVpBPjvI57JIER 0OTKe0Og5zrlm/+nYUFQPr8tEnwk45tfybNCe9VQBsa4QRuwmKT566OXzQVfbvvfQv6v 3uWfqk5Hq/h1zTwjkk+zl2RVbe21473XZWRXPjnG+gtzpBhcU+mjpyoNAz//AsUO4y2C XngQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id :disposition-notification-to:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding:content-language; bh=Sq5FkH++KZcWNUCYr7hgwfdhyMb3mhQ2qqWBtVdi88o=; b=m3pvFM0s+yRECm98HUPDkW+l9SHaezQem2wu7O4Ock/QB05iFv4D2DiY0byZ8SvTM9 I8wMx27S8gn8iwU15NGr4oD3xkHll7LQ+l015xaZEGr0qsdohLO6NmsARhCA15odUE/V VEduXrYfo6duMa0CPZ4EjrQjx9r9NnJhflxMt1o/n1BWHkPWYfZpttKYq0Kgbo5eFn12 lg6Dyr2DTpWAfIC/QlopbDqWbCq5zo264To5veenwKw5fXBsvllNJhogsVvZ9BtF13QL KG2ZZenwPxg020St4X2vB3YD85+CS8wwKsWtu776J2OP9ETLNvDT5Kmj7TdcjY/Jrswb 3E8g== X-Gm-Message-State: APf1xPD+j8HHULf+Vxif3GLD3R6y1yxV9XQqg+9Kp8LmBuQZM5SFK2d7 t+fbi0UB6b2h9XClHiQiBtVe+w== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AG47ELvtkpu2mnee2X8sNXkbrdaszbv1sRvaANJrA+GaQuds/1JDnbKI791xArElR3pI/p9dKXRB8A== X-Received: by 10.99.50.66 with SMTP id y63mr16625811pgy.207.1520371185003; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:19:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.7] ([35.129.64.201]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id o5sm33295348pfh.51.2018.03.06.13.19.44 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:19:44 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: How to prevent HDD spin-down. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: "J.B." Message-ID: <045b9b33-5982-c19c-d009-31bfd2c8fd7d@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 13:19:43 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US 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 21:19:46 -0000 On 03/06/2018 04:00 AM, freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org wrote: > Re: How to prevent HDD spin-down. Thank you to everyone for your helpful tips and suggestions. You make FreeBSD great. :) I tried the camcontrol suggestion first since it didn't require installing anything, but it didn't seem to work. Tried sysutils/ataidle next since it allows keeping spindown but with a reasonable timeout, and it seems to have worked perfectly: ataidle -P 127 /dev/ada0.