hdparm / head parking problem

[cyrille]

Hi,
New freebsd user (8.0),I've got DELL inspiron 1525N with a DEBIAN.
Since the beginning, this PC have got a disk spin-down and head parking problem

Look (playing time : approximatively 5 minutes):

vegBSD# smartctl -a /dev/ad4 | grep 'Cycle\|Power'
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 8631
vegBSD# smartctl -a /dev/ad4 | grep 'Cycle\|Power'
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 8632
vegBSD# smartctl -a /dev/ad4 | grep 'Cycle\|Power'
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 8635
vegBSD# smartctl -a /dev/ad4 | grep 'Cycle\|Power'
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 8639
vegBSD# smartctl -a /dev/ad4 | grep 'Cycle\|Power'
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 8648



Under DEBIAN I fixed this bug with hdparm configuration : hdparm -B 254 /dev/hda

But under freebsd I don't find the hdparm package.

Is there anybody who can help me to fix this.

Thx and sorry for my very bad english :(

Cyrille

[cyrille]

I've fixed the problem with the ataidle package
I've disabled the APM with ataidle -P 0 /dev/ad4
Since all is fine
Thx
Cyrille

[fronclynne]

A late point of reference for this thread (parenthetically and as an aside and all that): # smartctl -A /dev/ad4 | grep Cycle
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1262
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 1064489

At least, thanks to cyrille it isn't incrementing some thousands a day. Yuck.