From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Stark Subject: Re: SMART support for libata Date: 09 Jun 2005 14:13:57 -0400 Message-ID: <87u0k74cuy.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: <42A85F5E.10208@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Greg Stark , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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. -- greg