Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

Alejandro Bonilla
2005-07-04T06:30:44Z

Jens Axboe wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
>
>
>>>I'll be working on adding sysfs stuff to it tomorrow so it's generally
>>>useful (at least for monitoring things - not yet for parking disk
>>>heads).
>>>
>>>
>>Maybe there is some kind of all-purpose ATA command that instructs the
>>disk drive to park the heads? Jens, could you give us a hint on how a
>>userspace application would do that?
>>
>>
>
>Dunno if there's something that explicitly only parks the head, the best
>option is probably to issue a STANDBY_NOW command. You can test this
>with hdparm -y.
>
>
This is exactly what I said. Use hdparm to make the HD park
inmediatelly. I did send the email to the HDPARM developer, but he never
replied. I asked him what would be the best way to make the HD park with
no exception and then let it come back 5 or 10 seconds later.

Never heard back. ;-(

.Alejandro