Lies On Sep 4, 2011, at 0:39, David Vasek <va...@fido.cz> wrote:
> No, Marco, it is not true. There is a difference between unloading the heads in a controlled way and by an emergency retract. Doing emergency retract repeatedly is not good, really. > > Regards, > David > > On Sat, 3 Sep 2011, Marco Peereboom wrote: > >> Removing power from a running drive won't do anything to it. Just use OpenBSD >> and stop looking at worthless diagnostics tools. >> >> On Sep 3, 2011, at 15:41, Steve <scha...@aei.ca> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've got a strange situation with OpenBSD 4.9 on a new laptop, an Acer >> Aspire 1430 with an Hitachi 500 GB SATA disk, model HTS545050B9A300. When >> shutting down, OpenBSD does not spin down the disk, resulting in an "emergency >> unload" according to Smart terminology. Until I can resolve this issue, I've >> uninstalled OpenBSD from it, since smartctl reports in Slackware that there >> have been 17 "Power-off Retract" events so far, which could damage the disk in >> the long run. However I would really love to run OpenBSD on my laptop for the >> simple reason that I love it so much more than Linux. >>> >>> Can anyone suggest what I could do to stop this from happening? I found a >> discussion on a FreeBSD mailing list identifying and trying to resolve the >> exact same thing through kernel recompilations: >>> >>> >> http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Re-Spin-down-HDD-after-disk-sync-or-befo >> re-power-off-td4043068.html >>> >>> However, neither using FreeBSD nor patching the OpenBSD kernel would be a >> preferred choice for me. I'm sure there must be a simpler solution, maybe a >> sysctl setting I'm over-looking...? I've tried both IDE and AHCI modes in the >> BIOS with the same results. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Steve Schaller
