* (More about) IDE powersaving
@ 2002-08-13 8:22 jbradford
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From: jbradford @ 2002-08-13 8:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi Everyone,
Sorry to bring this up again, but I think that the current behavior of requiring a manual device reset, for some disks that are put to sleep with hdparm -Y is definitely wrong - I mailed Mark Lord, (the hdparm maintainer) who said:
> Yes, I agree: the IDE driver should automatically
> attempt a "device reset" at some point when trying
> to communicate with a drive that is not responding
> (eg. due to "hdparm -Y" or whatever).
Is this a known issue with some interface/drive combinations? I can only reproduce it with a Maxtor disk on a PIIX3 interface. After being put to sleep, the disk never responds until it is manually reset with hdparm -w.
I know you can achieve a similar effect by putting the disk in to standby, but putting it to sleep will reduce energy consumption, (by a tiny amount).
John.
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