Hello!
Sorry for my bad English!
Problem with FreeBSD 8.1 and my notebook HP ProBook 4510s <NX668EA> (Intel Mobile Dual Core Celeron T3000 1.8GHz, Intel GL 40 Cantiga Chipset, MB HP 3072, Bios Compaq F15, 2GB RAM DDR II 800 MHz, 250GB HDD FUJITSU MJA2250BH, Intel GMA X4500MHD, LAN Marvell Yukon 88E8072 10/100/1000Mbit, DVDRW Optiarc AD7581S, WiFi Broadcom BCM4312, Snd HDA):
FreeBSD uses too aggressive power saving mode of HDD, at which HDD heads very often park. The sound "blink" is heard during this moment.
This problem also is observed in Linux (Russian ALT Linux 5.0.0 KDE Desktop and may be Ubuntu ), but no this problem in WinXP SP3.
FreeBSD users have found working workaround:
Install port sysutils/ataidle and run
Or write changes in /etc/rc.conf:
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But may FreeBSD Team fix this problem in future, else can this damage HDD (counter of parks have limit)?
Sorry for my bad English!
Problem with FreeBSD 8.1 and my notebook HP ProBook 4510s <NX668EA> (Intel Mobile Dual Core Celeron T3000 1.8GHz, Intel GL 40 Cantiga Chipset, MB HP 3072, Bios Compaq F15, 2GB RAM DDR II 800 MHz, 250GB HDD FUJITSU MJA2250BH, Intel GMA X4500MHD, LAN Marvell Yukon 88E8072 10/100/1000Mbit, DVDRW Optiarc AD7581S, WiFi Broadcom BCM4312, Snd HDA):
FreeBSD uses too aggressive power saving mode of HDD, at which HDD heads very often park. The sound "blink" is heard during this moment.
This problem also is observed in Linux (Russian ALT Linux 5.0.0 KDE Desktop and may be Ubuntu ), but no this problem in WinXP SP3.
FreeBSD users have found working workaround:
Install port sysutils/ataidle and run
# ataidle -P 254 /dev/ad0
Or write changes in /etc/rc.conf:
Code:
ataidle_enable=«YES»
ataidle_devices=«ad0»
ataidle_ad4="-P 254"
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But may FreeBSD Team fix this problem in future, else can this damage HDD (counter of parks have limit)?