From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: SMART support for libata Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:38:59 +0200 Message-ID: <20050610063858.GN5140@suse.de> References: <87y8g8r4y6.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> <41B7EFA3.8000007@pobox.com> <87br6g6ayr.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> <42A73E6E.80808@rtr.ca> <873brs5ir8.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> <42A85F5E.10208@rtr.ca> <87u0k74cuy.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:47503 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262414AbVFJGh6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:37:58 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87u0k74cuy.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Greg Stark Cc: Mark Lord , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" On Thu, Jun 09 2005, Greg Stark wrote: > > Mark Lord 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? -- Jens Axboe