From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Christian Pernegger <pernegger@gmail.com>
Cc: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>,
"Tvrtko A. Ursulin" <tvrtko@ursulin.net>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Western Digital GreenPower drives and Linux
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:18:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4806430F.3070201@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bb145bd20804161059u4fe45debs22adf337fef143aa@mail.gmail.com>
Christian Pernegger wrote:
>
> Will set the timeout to 25sec using the DOS kludge and see what
> happens ... doubt it will help much, though. I'd much rather like to
> know what causes the drives to load heads again so soon after the
> unload. With the usage pattern of these drives they should stay
> unloaded most of the time here.
>
> Being able to set the timeout online via hdparm would be nice, too :)
..
That can be arranged. I just need a copy of the DOS utility that does it now.
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-16 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-09 20:18 Western Digital GreenPower drives and Linux Tvrtko A. Ursulin
2008-04-10 7:48 ` Tvrtko A. Ursulin
2008-04-10 12:44 ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-04-10 15:01 ` Christian Pernegger
2008-04-12 17:11 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-13 15:41 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-16 11:40 ` Helge Hafting
2008-04-16 17:59 ` Christian Pernegger
2008-04-16 18:18 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2008-04-16 19:44 ` Tvrtko A. Ursulin
2008-04-16 19:46 ` Tvrtko A. Ursulin
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2008-04-10 22:36 devzero
2008-04-11 21:00 ` Tvrtko A. Ursulin
2008-04-12 3:19 ` Mike Snitzer
2008-04-12 7:11 ` Tvrtko A. Ursulin
2008-04-12 15:20 ` Mike Snitzer
2008-04-12 15:56 ` Mike Snitzer
2008-04-13 8:30 ` Niels
2008-04-27 17:45 devzero
2008-04-27 19:14 ` Renato S. Yamane
2008-04-29 15:22 ` Niels
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