Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 18:05:08 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to prevent HDD spin-down. Message-ID: <20180306180508.3d7eaa95@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <eac51955-98fd-88bc-9a00-cb639429b182@xenet.de> References: <99f2e64c-577c-20e1-b595-9b8391efaf8e@gmail.com> <eac51955-98fd-88bc-9a00-cb639429b182@xenet.de>
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On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 10:43:06 +0100 Matthias Meyser wrote: > Am 06.03.2018 um 03:37 schrieb 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. > > Perhaps > > camcontrol standby -t0 /dev/ada0 > camcontrol idle -t0 /dev/ada0 My understanding is that the disk is still spinning in idle mode, so there shouldn't be a need to turn-off that timeout.
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