How to set up an HDD and its free-fall sensor on Lenovo ThinkPad T430?

vaikus84 · 01-31-2015, 11:56 PM

Hello HDD enthusiasts of LinuxQuestions,

I'm new to Linux. How would I go about optimizing My HDD to work balanced and long on it?
Meaning : scheduler / hdparm / free-fall sensor / acpi_call / hdaps / tp-smapi(needed?) etc.

Would love to use TLP for it. So I could potentially tweak some other aspects of power management also like - Runtime Power Management / advanced power management / SATA aggressive link power management (ALPM) / PCI Express Active State Power Management (PCIe ASPM) etc.

Also would love to know the best balanced settings for those mentioned.

Any advice on what settings to use for this?:
(From what I understand this gives info to hdparm so essentially those are numbers to send to hdparm?)

# Hard disk advanced power management level: 1(max saving)..254(off)
# Levels 1..127 may spin down the disk.
# Separate values for multiple devices with spaces.
DISK_APM_LEVEL_ON_AC="254 254"
DISK_APM_LEVEL_ON_BAT="200 200"

Thank you in advance,
vaikus84

Keruskerfuerst · 02-06-2015, 03:23 PM

Have a look at hdparm with

info hdparm.

vaikus84 · 02-07-2015, 12:44 AM

Code:

neo@Matrix-ThinkPad-T430:~$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda

/dev/sda:

ATA device, with non-removable media
	Model Number:       ST320LT007-9ZV142                       
	Serial Number:      W0Q5LQ06
	Firmware Revision:  0004LVM1
	Transport:          Serial
Standards:
	Used: unknown (minor revision code 0x0029) 
	Supported: 8 7 6 5 
	Likely used: 8
Configuration:
	Logical		max	current
	cylinders	16383	65535
	heads		16	1
	sectors/track	63	63
	--
	CHS current addressable sectors:    4128705
	LBA    user addressable sectors:  268435455
	LBA48  user addressable sectors:  625142448
	Logical  Sector size:                   512 bytes
	Physical Sector size:                  4096 bytes
	Logical Sector-0 offset:                  0 bytes
	device size with M = 1024*1024:      305245 MBytes
	device size with M = 1000*1000:      320072 MBytes (320 GB)
	cache/buffer size  = 16384 KBytes
	Nominal Media Rotation Rate: 7242
Capabilities:
	LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
	Queue depth: 32
	Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum
	R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16	Current = 16
	Advanced power management level: 254
	Recommended acoustic management value: 254, current value: 0
	DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 
	     Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
	PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 
	     Cycle time: no flow control=120ns  IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
	Enabled	Supported:
	   *	SMART feature set
	    	Security Mode feature set
	   *	Power Management feature set
	   *	Write cache
	   *	Look-ahead
	   *	Host Protected Area feature set
	   *	WRITE_BUFFER command
	   *	READ_BUFFER command
	   *	DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
	   *	Advanced Power Management feature set
	    	SET_MAX security extension
	   *	48-bit Address feature set
	   *	Device Configuration Overlay feature set
	   *	Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
	   *	FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
	   *	SMART error logging
	   *	SMART self-test
	   *	General Purpose Logging feature set
	   *	64-bit World wide name
	   *	IDLE_IMMEDIATE with UNLOAD
	   *	Write-Read-Verify feature set
	   *	WRITE_UNCORRECTABLE_EXT command
	   *	{READ,WRITE}_DMA_EXT_GPL commands
	   *	Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
	   *	Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
	   *	Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s)
	   *	Native Command Queueing (NCQ)
	   *	Host-initiated interface power management
	   *	Phy event counters
	   *	Idle-Unload when NCQ is active
	    	Device-initiated interface power management
	   *	Software settings preservation
	   *	SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set
	   *	SCT Read/Write Long (AC1), obsolete
	   *	SCT Error Recovery Control (AC3)
	   *	SCT Features Control (AC4)
	   *	SCT Data Tables (AC5)
	    	unknown 206[12] (vendor specific)
	    	unknown 206[13] (vendor specific)
Security: 
	Master password revision code = 65534
		supported
	not	enabled
	not	locked
		frozen
	not	expired: security count
		supported: enhanced erase
	62min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 62min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 
Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 5000c50053405a0f
	NAA		: 5
	IEEE OUI	: 000c50
	Unique ID	: 053405a0f
Checksum: correct

vaikus84 · 02-08-2015, 06:02 AM

Hdparm does not answer my question.