From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752207AbYDPSTP (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:19:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750798AbYDPSS6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:18:58 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:1576 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750735AbYDPSS5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:18:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4806430F.3070201@rtr.ca> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:18:55 -0400 From: Mark Lord Organization: Real-Time Remedies Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Pernegger Cc: Helge Hafting , "Tvrtko A. Ursulin" , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Western Digital GreenPower drives and Linux References: <200804092118.35501.tvrtko@ursulin.net> <4805E59E.1020607@aitel.hist.no> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christian Pernegger wrote: > > Will set the timeout to 25sec using the DOS kludge and see what > happens ... doubt it will help much, though. I'd much rather like to > know what causes the drives to load heads again so soon after the > unload. With the usage pattern of these drives they should stay > unloaded most of the time here. > > Being able to set the timeout online via hdparm would be nice, too :) .. That can be arranged. I just need a copy of the DOS utility that does it now. Cheers