Hard disk standby time not working?
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Hello:
I've tried to use the Hard disk standby time setting, changing it to 60, only to find out it didnt work on my system (old SATA disk on a Nvidia MCP73 SATA controller running in AHCI mode): it made the HDD spin down and spin up continuosly. I managed to set it back to disabled (0 value) but even with that setting I still hear the disk spinning down every now and then…
Is this HDD standby feature controlled by ataidle? How exactly? Where is its config kept?This is the output of ataidle:
Model: ST3250310AS Serial: 5RY10GCQ Firmware Rev: 3.AAC ATA revision: ATA-7 LBA 48: yes Geometry: 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 spt Capacity: 232GB SMART Supported: yes SMART Enabled: no Write Cache Supported: yes Write Cache Enabled: yes APM Supported: no AAM Supported: no
When I do ataidle -P 0 /dev/ada0 I get: ataidle: the device does not support advanced power management
The GUI values for HDD spin down are minutes? They look more like 0-255 ATA APM values…
P.S.: I have powerd enabled, in hiadaptive mode, does it affect HDD spin down?