Re: [patch] My AMD IDE driver, v2.7

Alan Cox
2002-03-20T00:10:36Z

> > receives a command when not spinned up. You need to issue a wake command
> > first, which hdparm doesn't, it just leaves it to the kernel to issue a
> > read command or whatever to wake the drive ...
>
> Is this common disk bug, or are they permitted to behave like that?

Its not that common, but these sort of things happen sometimes. IDE is
very much a defensive driver