Re: ataidle + notebook hdd + 9.0-BETA2

From: Nenhum_de_Nos <matheus_at_eternamente.info>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:09:22 -0300
On Sat, September 17, 2011 11:02, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 September 2011 05:59:05 Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
>> I just installed BETA2 on WD notebook disk:
>>
>> ada0 at ata2 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
>> ada0: <WDC WD5000BPVT-00HXZT1 01.01A01> ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
>> ada0: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes)
>> ada0: 476940MB (976773168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
>> ada0: Previously was known as ad4
>>
>> and tried as usual to make the disk last a little longer:
>>
>> rush# ataidle -P 243 /dev/ad4
>> ataidle: error: identify device /dev/ad4
>>
>> rush# ataidle -P 243 /dev/ada0
>> (pass0:ata2:0:0:0): SETFEATURES. ACB: ef 05 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 f3
>> 00
>> (pass0:ata2:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
>> Failed to configure APM: No error: 0
>>
>> so, is this still needed after ada took place ? How can I do it now if
>> needed ?
>
> Until a more elegant solution is found you can set the APM value like
> this:
>
> camcontrol cmd ada0 -a "EF 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 F3 00"
>
> EF is setfeature command
> 05 enables APM feature
> F3 is 243
>
> To disable APM you can use:
>
> camcontrol cmd ada0 -a "EF 85 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00"
>
> You can check the value with:
>
> camcontrol identify ada0

thanks,

problem solved :)

matheus


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