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 -- "All mushrooms are edible. However, some of them only once" -- Ino!~ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org