Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk

[Lenz Grimmer <lenz@grimmer.com>]

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Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> Head parking while the system running is almost useless, since sooner or 
> later, someone's going to write/read something.

Correct, that's why we're discussing to freeze the request queue as well.

> If you want head parking at shutdown, I suggest using hdparm -y. This puts the 
> drive to sleep, which includes spindle spindown and, included, appropriate 
> head parking.

But it suffers from the same fate - as soon as the disk receives a new
request, it will spin up again. So there is no gain, except that just
parking the head without spinning down the spindle can be performed much
faster.

Bye,
	LenZ
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