Hi I'm using OpenSolaris 2008.05 for the first day on my laptop (with a western digital sata disk), it seems very cool, but I've a problem, my hard disk makes littles "click" sound. I had this problem with linux and all I had to do was: hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda to disable the power management of the disk. But I don't know how to do that in OpenSolaris
Each time it's make the "click" sound, it's add +1 to the Load_Cycle_Count, and once it's reachs something like 300 000, the disk is dead. On Linux it was making something like 3 cycle / day, and with opensolaris, it's something like 15 cycle / minutes !!! I tried to use [b]smartctl -s off /dev/rdsk/c5d0s0[/b] to disable the SMART system on the drive, but it replies me: ####################################################################### ATA command routine ata_command_interface() NOT IMPLEMENTED under Solaris. Please contact smartmontools-support at lists.sourceforge.net if you want to help in porting smartmontools to Solaris. ####################################################################### Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device) A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. Thank you to help me This message posted from opensolaris.org
