On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 09:21 +0100, David Demelier wrote: > But I can still hear the noise every 10 seconds, I think atacontrol does > not totally close the APM feature of the device.
atacontrol's spindown setting doesn't change anything in the disk itself: it just controls a timer in the ad(4) driver which sends a spindown command when it expires. You'll need to keep using ataidle to fix the APM value. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"