On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:28:58 +0100 Morgan Wesström <freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz> wrote:
> Garrett Moore wrote: > > The drives being discussed in my related thread (regarding poor > > performance) are all WD Green drives. I have used wdidle3 to set > > all of my drive timeouts to 5 minutes. I'll see what sort of > > difference this makes for performance. > > > > Even if it makes no difference to performance, thank you for > > pointing it out -- my drives have less than 2,000 hours on them and > > were all over 90,000 load cycles due to this moronic factory > > setting. Since changing the timeout, they haven't parked (which is > > what I would expect). > > > > You're welcome. I just feel as bad for you as for everyone else who > has bought these obviously Windoze optimized harddrives. Unfortunately > neither wdidle3 nor an updated firmware is available or functioning on > the latest models in the Green series. At least that's what I've read > from other people having this issue. WD only claims they don't support > Linux and they probably have never heard of FreeBSD. You might be able to tune the APM settings on the drive using sysutils/ataidle to change the amount of time the drive waits until parking the heads. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
