SATA disk disappears

[Adam Vande More]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Warren Block wrote:
>
>  Hmm.  The green drives are supposed to go to sleep for power saving, and
>> then there's a multiple-second delay when they have to spin back up on
>> access. That should not be a problem for gmirror, but maybe it is.
>> sysutils/ataidle can turn on the spindown.  Some drives do not accept that
>> command, or claim to accept it but ignore it.  Worth a try, though.
>>
>
> Make that: sysutils/ataidle can turn *off* the spindown.
>
>
Maybe just bumping kern.cam.ada.default_timeout to 45 or something might
help while still allowing drive to function as designed.


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Adam Vande More