Re: SMART support for libata

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Thu, Jun 09 2005, Greg Stark wrote:
> 
> Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca> writes:
> 
> > Greg Stark wrote:
> > ..
> > >>You should be using "-y" (standby) instead of "-Y" (sleep).
> > > I'll try that. But that's not going to make it spin up when it gets a SMART
> > > query is it?
> > 
> > Depends on what SMART items are being queried.
> > 
> > Actually, what you should *really* be using is "hdparm -S"
> > with a suitable timeout value (say, 30 or larger).
> 
> Not really since the drive will just spin up ever few seconds as bdflush (or
> whatever it's called these days) dribbles out pages.
> 
> What I should *really* be using is the noflushd daemon. That's been on hold
> since I found it didn't work with SATA drives. But I wonder if it would work
> these days.

noflushd is ancient, have you tried playing with laptop mode?

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Jens Axboe