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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: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:30:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <470F7705.3@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71b295590710112207v72b9eb8aqc19e59c610f20dd@mail.gmail.com>

Mark Weber wrote:
>
> # hdparm -S1 -C /dev/sda; sleep 6; hdparm -C /dev/sda
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  setting standby to 1 (5 seconds)
>  drive state is:  active/idle
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  drive state is:  active/idle

That's interesting.

So, either something is regularly accessing/polling the drive,
or it just doesn't work with the standby timer.

Are there any interesting kernel messages being generated
during execution of those commands?

-ml

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-12 13:30 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
2007-10-12  5:07   ` Mark Weber
2007-10-12 13:30     ` Mark Lord [this message]
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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