From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: Odd behaviour of device in response to idleimmediate with unload Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:47:12 -0500 Message-ID: <49108AA0.1080507@rtr.ca> References: <871vxrzssj.fsf@denkblock.local> <491026AB.1090704@kernel.org> <20081104123211.A86321FD5A@chi.die-welt.net> <49108120.6000205@rtr.ca> <491083CC.5050508@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:43258 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751091AbYKDRqd (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:46:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <491083CC.5050508@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Evgeni Golov Cc: Tejun Heo , Elias Oltmanns , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox Mark Lord wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: >> Evgeni Golov wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:40:43 +0900 Tejun Heo wrote: >>> >>>> Is it a laptop? >>> >>> Yes it is, it's a IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m (9453A11) >>> >>>> Does 'hdparm -y' cause the same thing? >>> >>> No, neither -y nor -Y cause these messages. >> .. >> >> Well, -y does a simple ATA "IDLE IMMEDIATE" command. .. EEeek.. actually, no it doesn't. It issues a STANDBY IMMEDIATE. I'm releasing hdparm-9.3 in the next few minutes, with new --idle and --idle-unload flags to issue the commands in question here. Cheers