Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1125 mails)

[David Haller <dnh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

On Sun, 06 May 2012, phanisvara das wrote:
> the only TB size HDDs one gets in kolkata these days are those
> "green" ones, that park every few seconds, only to be awakened again
> a couple sec.s later. there's supposedly a DOS utility to adjust
> that, but google finds mixed reports re. this.

I too have only those disks, but they don't park. You can adjust that
with 'hdparm', namely the Parameter -S. Also, look at your
power-management settings in yast. Or adjust the pm-profile setting

SATA_ALPM="max_performance"

in the profile. I just copied the 'balanced' to a new name, changed
that setting and then activated that profile (/etc/pm-profiler.conf
resp. /etc/sysconfig/pm-profiler).

> i can't easily get another 2TB drive now and will have to make do
> with two of them for the time being.

You should. Having identical drives of the same age in a RAID ...

HTH,
-dnh

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