From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: crash@treysoft.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hdparm standby timeout not working for WD raptors?
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:37:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <470E7B90.5060203@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71b295590710061011g3cd43317i8eff3a7dce2a188@mail.gmail.com>
Mark Weber wrote:
> I can't get "hdparm -S" to work at all.
>
> Using "hdparm -S 1" should set the timeout to
> 5 seconds, but the drives stay active/idle all the
> time. When I set to standby manually, the drives
> stay on standby for days, and start up fine when
> they are used. I know this because I logged status
> every 30 minutes using crontab.
>
> They just don't standby automatically.
>
> I'm using 5 identical drives (see below for drive
> info), with software RAID.
I don't have Raptors here anymore to try it with,
but "hdparm -S1 /dev/sd?" did work fine with them
when last tried.
What do you get when you try this:
hdparm -S1 -C /dev/sda;sleep 6; hdparm -C /dev/sda
??
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-11 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-06 17:11 hdparm standby timeout not working for WD raptors? Mark Weber
2007-10-11 19:37 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-10-12 5:07 ` Mark Weber
2007-10-12 13:30 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-12 22:19 ` Mark Weber
2007-10-13 12:46 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-14 12:36 ` Bart Samwel
2007-10-14 20:30 ` Mark Weber
2007-10-14 21:05 ` Bart Samwel
2007-10-14 22:05 ` Mark Weber
2007-10-14 23:40 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-15 0:02 ` Mark Weber
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