Re: IDE-disk spindown fails

[Michael Buesch <fsdeveloper@yahoo.de>]

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Sorry, I found out, that it's not a kernel problem.
It's a problem with the userspace noflushd daemon.

On Sunday 29 June 2003 16:56, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have a problem spinning down my Western Digital 80GB harddisk.
> root@server:~> cat /proc/ide/hdc/model
> WDC WD800BB-00CAA1
>
> Neither hdparm -S nor noflushd is able to spin down this disk.
>
> The machine is a very old Pentium 1 machine. It's BIOS doesn't
> recognize this new (I've bought it a few days ago) harddisk.
> So I've set this IDE-channel to "none" in the BIOS to avoid
> very long searches on this channel from BIOS while booting.
>
> Reading and writing on the disk works quite fine.
>
> /dev/hda is the drive, the system is installed on.
> It's a very old 2GB Quantum drive.
> root@server:~> cat /proc/ide/hda/model
> QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM2110A
>
> The BIOS recognizes it and I'm able to spindown it.
>
>
> Does linux depend on the BIOS when spinning down?
>
> root@server:~> cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.4.21 (mb@lfs) (gcc-Version 3.3.1 20030519 (prerelease)) #2
> Son Jun 15 13:08:42 CEST 2003
>
> If you want me to run any tests on the machine, or if you
> want some information, I've not given, just ask, please.

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Regards Michael Büsch
http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft
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