Re: Recurrent disk activity every minute

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 09:33:45PM -0600, jgw%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
> I'm wondering: is there any way to read the current APM setting for a disc
> using native tools?  All I see with atactl(8) is 'identify', 'checkpower'
> or 'smart status', none which gives a numerical value.  The following is
> readable via smartctl(8) (smartmon pkg) after setting the apm value:
> 
>  % sudo atactl wd0 apm set 253
>  % sudo smartctl -d ata -T permissive -g apm  /dev/wd0d
>  ..
>  APM level is:     254 (maximum performance)

Precisely, I too had this question - how do I check current value of apm.

Thanks for this.

I do agre, what you can "set" with atactl should be "list"able with atactl
as well.

Mayuresh