Kostik Belousov wrote: > I noted that when idle, my laptop HDD increases the Load_Cycle_Count > (193) approx. each ten seconds, as reported by smartctl. Have recently > read about the Ubuntu and APM mode for hard drives, I searched for the > tool to tune APM (that has functionality similar to linux' hdparm -B). > > It seems that FreeBSD does not have a tool ? Am I wrong ? In case I did > not make a mistake, below is the patch that allows to manage APM state > of the hard drive using atacontrol. > /usr/ports/sysutils/ataidle exists and is usable, (I use it on my laptop.) However it seems it could be a sensible thing to have in atacontrol. Vince > Any comments or objections against committing this ? > http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/ata_setcap.1.patchReceived on Tue Feb 05 2008 - 12:29:45 UTC
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