From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [git patches] libata hibernation fixes Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:23:07 +0900 Message-ID: <4911038B.9020003@kernel.org> References: <20081104062734.GA4420@havoc.gtf.org> <20081104203036.GE5862@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:32926 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753748AbYKECXW (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2008 21:23:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Pavel Machek , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: >> (Is park command normally supported on modern disks? IIRC hdaps people >> had issues with not all disks supporting it?) > > The modern version of parking is called "idle immediate". It may be that > only laptop drives support the "unload" part. But it's definitely not an > ancient and deprecated thing (although calling it "parking" is apparently > old-fashioned :) I'm afraid trying to use that new extension during shutdown would cause far more trouble which would require extensive black/white list at the end. For hdaps, it's okay as the laptops w/ those sensors are supposed to have matching hard drive but using it on generic machines doesn't sound like a sane idea. Thanks. -- tejun