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From: Michael Buesch <fsdeveloper@yahoo.de>
To: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: IDE-disk spindown fails
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 16:56:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200306291656.32704.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> (raw)

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Hi.

I have a problem spinning down my Western Digital 80GB harddisk.
root@server:~> cat /proc/ide/hdc/model  
WDC WD800BB-00CAA1

Neither hdparm -S nor noflushd is able to spin down this disk.

The machine is a very old Pentium 1 machine. It's BIOS doesn't
recognize this new (I've bought it a few days ago) harddisk.
So I've set this IDE-channel to "none" in the BIOS to avoid
very long searches on this channel from BIOS while booting.

Reading and writing on the disk works quite fine.

/dev/hda is the drive, the system is installed on.
It's a very old 2GB Quantum drive.
root@server:~> cat /proc/ide/hda/model 
QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM2110A

The BIOS recognizes it and I'm able to spindown it.


Does linux depend on the BIOS when spinning down?

root@server:~> cat /proc/version 
Linux version 2.4.21 (mb@lfs) (gcc-Version 3.3.1 20030519 (prerelease)) #2 Son Jun 15 13:08:42 CEST 2003

If you want me to run any tests on the machine, or if you
want some information, I've not given, just ask, please.

- -- 
Regards Michael Büsch
http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft
 16:45:47 up  5:54,  4 users,  load average: 1.05, 1.04, 1.08

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             reply	other threads:[~2003-06-29 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-29 14:56 Michael Buesch [this message]
2003-06-29 18:39 ` IDE-disk spindown fails Michael Buesch
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2003-06-29 18:21 John Bradford

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