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      thorazine74 last edited by

      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?

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