On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 02:47:34PM +0200, Thierry LACOSTE wrote:
> I'm running netbsd 2.0 on an ACER Aspire 1620 laptop.
> It works fine accept for some random delays in various
> commands (ls, etc... or editing with emacs).
> It seems that the spinning of the disk is stoped and
> restarted too often, which could explain those delays.
> 
> Does somebody know how I can check that this is
> indeed the case ?
> How can I change the frequency at which
> the disk is put asleep ?

check atactl(8), especially the setidle and setstandby commands.
Your bios probably sets the idele and standby timers at boot.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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