On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 19:37:47 +0100 Dimitry Andric <d...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 26 Nov 2020, at 19:21, Gary Jennejohn <gljennj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 10:44:19 -0700 > > Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote: > ... > >>> Example: > >>> > >>> /sbin/camcontrol standby /dev/da2 -v -t 1800 > >> > >> > >> Perfect! I've not had to deal with sata disks that did this since the > >> ataidle days. I looked in camcontrol before suggesting it, but somehow > >> missed this... Glad I posted a bogus answer (sorry about that), since I > >> learned something new. > >> > > > > camcontrol unfortuantely doesn't work with my USB3 enclosures. I > > suspect that the USB3-to-SATA bridge controller is doing its own thing > > and camcontrol has no effect on its behavior. Not tragic for me since > > I use these disks primarily for backups. But for someone using a USB > > attached disk as a primary file system this behavior will definitely be > > a PITA. > > In this case it's about ATA commands being passed though the USB bridge. > Does "camcontrol identify daX" fail in your case too? > > I have used quite a bunch of different USB disks, mostly from WD or > Seagate, and these come with varying qualities of USB-SATA bridges in > them. But all of them work with "camcontrol identify". > camcontrol identify does work. The enclosure I tested has an ASMedia asm1153e bridge in it. This one idles the disk after a few minutes. -- Gary Jennejohn _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
