disk powerdown

[Dimitry Andric]

On 22 Feb 2015, at 10:54, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at puchar.net> wrote:
> 
> how to turn off laptop magnetic drive (SATA) automatic powerdown feature. it turns down and up lots of time in my laptop to save a little of power and destroy drive much quicker :) and being so annoying.

Install the sysutils/ataidle port, then use:

ataidle -A 0 -P 0 /dev/ada0

and replace ada0 with whatever your disk device is.  It will use more power, obviously...

-Dimitry

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