From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262435AbVFISOM (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:14:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262437AbVFISOM (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:14:12 -0400 Received: from stark.xeocode.com ([216.58.44.227]:43741 "EHLO stark.xeocode.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262435AbVFISOG (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:14:06 -0400 To: Mark Lord Cc: Greg Stark , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: SMART support for libata References: <87y8g8r4y6.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> <41B7EFA3.8000007@pobox.com> <87br6g6ayr.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> <42A73E6E.80808@rtr.ca> <873brs5ir8.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> <42A85F5E.10208@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <42A85F5E.10208@rtr.ca> From: Greg Stark Organization: The Emacs Conspiracy; member since 1992 Date: 09 Jun 2005 14:13:57 -0400 Message-ID: <87u0k74cuy.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mark Lord writes: > Greg Stark wrote: > .. > >>You should be using "-y" (standby) instead of "-Y" (sleep). > > I'll try that. But that's not going to make it spin up when it gets a SMART > > query is it? > > Depends on what SMART items are being queried. > > Actually, what you should *really* be using is "hdparm -S" > with a suitable timeout value (say, 30 or larger). Not really since the drive will just spin up ever few seconds as bdflush (or whatever it's called these days) dribbles out pages. What I should *really* be using is the noflushd daemon. That's been on hold since I found it didn't work with SATA drives. But I wonder if it would work these days. -- greg