Subject: Re: DMA spinning down EIDE?
To: None <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
From: Thilo Manske <Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/31/1998 12:12:23
In message <199812310601.BAA28481@ghost.whirlpool.com> you wrote:

> And that is it.  I don't understand why the drive spins down, perhaps
> it is doing this on it's own?  Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Yes, IDE drives can do their powermanagement by themselves, it seems to
be switched on for your drive.
You can disable it with the atactl tool (eg. atactl wd0 idletime 0) wich
comes with -current.

Hope this helps,
  Thilo.
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