Re: Acer Aspire One D250 disk spin-down problem

2011-01-16 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011, Matthias Apitz wrote: El d??a Sunday, January 16, 2011 a las 10:05:39AM +, Bruce Cran escribi??: On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:24:13 +0100 Matthias Apitz wrote: Master: ad4 SATA revision 2.x As well the BIOS has no visible option for this. I want to disable this,

Re: Acer Aspire One D250 disk spin-down problem

2011-01-16 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, January 16, 2011 a las 10:05:39AM +, Bruce Cran escribió: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:24:13 +0100 > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > Master: ad4 SATA revision 2.x > > > As well the BIOS has no visible option for this. I want to disable > > this, what could I do? > > Since it

Re: Acer Aspire One D250 disk spin-down problem

2011-01-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:24:13 +0100 Matthias Apitz wrote: > Master: ad4 SATA revision 2.x > As well the BIOS has no visible option for this. I want to disable > this, what could I do? Since it's a WDC disk I guess it's one of the "green" ones. These have a short default timeout after which

Acer Aspire One D250 disk spin-down problem

2011-01-15 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I have a laptop Acer Aspire One D250 running 9-CURRENT and it seems that after ~12 secs the disk is spinning down and is coming up again if an action, like a command to start, requires this; I have checked with atacontrol(8) but as far as I can see spin down is disabled: # atacontrol list