From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, John Fremlin <not@just.any.name>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
htejun@gmail.com, jim.kardach@intel.com
Subject: Re: HD head unloads
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:06:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <455A05C2.6080508@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0611141021040.29913@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> Let me jump in here. Short info: Toshiba MK2003GAH 1.8" 20GB
> PATA harddisk, in a Sony Vaio U3 (x86, gray-blue PhoenixBIOS).
> If idle for more than 5 secs, unloads. Even when not inside any OS,
> which really sets me off.
> So I wrote a quick workaround hack for Linux, http://tinyurl.com/y3qs6g
> It reads a predefined amount of bytes (just as much to not cause
> slowdown yet still cause it to not unload) from the disk at fixed
> intervals.
Thanks for the info.
Jan, in your specific case, can you not "fix it" properly with:
hdparm -B255 /dev/?d?
(fill in your drive device there).
???
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-14 18:07 UTC|newest]
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2006-11-13 14:22 ` AHCI power saving (was Re: Ten hours on X60s) Pavel Machek
2006-11-13 15:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-13 15:37 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-13 15:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-13 16:08 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-11-13 17:58 ` Mark Lord
2006-11-13 22:01 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-14 3:43 ` HD head unloads (was: Re: AHCI power saving) Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-14 9:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-14 18:06 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2006-11-15 10:58 ` HD head unloads Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-16 0:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-21 4:40 ` AHCI power saving (was Re: Ten hours on X60s) Tejun Heo
2006-11-21 11:32 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-13 16:11 ` Alan
2006-11-13 21:56 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-14 13:33 ` AHCI power saving John Fremlin
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