Laptop disk spindown

[Allan Jude]

On 2016-09-11 12:50, George Mitchell wrote:
> Smartctl reports that my laptop disk has started and stopped
> 101,798 times in 2,027 hours of operation, or roughly once a
> minute.  I imagine that saves wear and tear on the disk, but
> it also makes the laptop seem remarkably sluggish for an A8
> based system.  Isn't there some sysctl that will lengthen the
> idle time before stopping the disk?  I don't see one in the
> ada man page.                                     -- George
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This is controlled by the drive firmware, not the OS, however, you can
often use camcontrol(8) to adjust it.

I don't have the exact command handy, sorry.

-- 
Allan Jude

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