ataidle + notebook hdd + 9.0-BETA2

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Wednesday 14 September 2011 05:59:05 Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> I just installed BETA2 on WD notebook disk:
> 
> ada0 at ata2 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
> ada0: <WDC WD5000BPVT-00HXZT1 01.01A01> ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
> ada0: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes)
> ada0: 476940MB (976773168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
> ada0: Previously was known as ad4
> 
> and tried as usual to make the disk last a little longer:
> 
> rush# ataidle -P 243 /dev/ad4
> ataidle: error: identify device /dev/ad4
> 
> rush# ataidle -P 243 /dev/ada0
> (pass0:ata2:0:0:0): SETFEATURES. ACB: ef 05 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 f3 00
> (pass0:ata2:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> Failed to configure APM: No error: 0
> 
> so, is this still needed after ada took place ? How can I do it now if
> needed ?

Until a more elegant solution is found you can set the APM value like this:

camcontrol cmd ada0 -a "EF 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 F3 00"

EF is setfeature command
05 enables APM feature
F3 is 243

To disable APM you can use:

camcontrol cmd ada0 -a "EF 85 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00"

You can check the value with:

camcontrol identify ada0
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