From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Justin Maggard Subject: Re: WDC WD15EARS-00Z5B1: harddrive which does crazy unloading Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:10:41 -0800 Message-ID: <150c16851003111110v558e852al78934cd200cb57ca@mail.gmail.com> References: <201002081933.10144.suse-linux@ml082.pinguin.uni.cc> <4B96013F.1050904@kernel.org> <4B965DE7.7000109@teksavvy.com> <4B9881C8.10506@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:50728 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758070Ab0CKTKm convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:10:42 -0500 Received: by pwi1 with SMTP id 1so194789pwi.19 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:10:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B9881C8.10506@kernel.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Mark Lord , Al Bogner , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > On 03/09/2010 11:40 PM, Mark Lord wrote: >> The wdidle3-1.03 DOS tool can fix that. =A0Google it. >> >> I have disassembled that tool here, and found a few >> vendor-unique commands inside it. =A0But thus far have >> not managed to get them working natively in Linux. >> >> I really need a SATA tracer/analyser.. > > Hmmm... so they don't respond to ATA APM command? I believe only the enterprise-class models do. The desktop class drives, from what I've seen, don't. -Justin