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Message-ID: <44D793E6.8010500@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:26:30 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
To:	Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@...nline.de>
CC:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	davidsen@....com
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc2, problem to wake up spinned down drive?

Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Pavel Machek wrote:
>>>> echo 1 > /sys/bus/scsi/devices/1:0:0:0/power/state
>>> Really? I thought power/state takes 0/3 (for D0 and D3)
>> Yes, of course.  My mistake.  Sorry about the confusion.  The correct
>> command is 'echo -n 3 > /sys/bus/scsi/devices/x:y:z:w/power/state'.
>>
> 
> (Sure?  :-)

The sleeping part is correct.  That will make libata put the disk to sleep.

> Now this did not work at all. The '-n 3' was probably
> correct, but when I tried to access the disk, then it
> did not spin up again (I waited for 5 minutes). There
> was no message on the console, either.
> 
> But I could not reproduce this problem.
> 
> How do I monitor that the disk spins down and up?

But the waking up part isn't.  You need to issue wake up explicitly by 
doing 'echo -n 0 > /sys/...'  I've been a complete idiot in this thread. 
  Please excuse me.  :-(

I think the solution to your problem is adjusting command timeout to 
more reasonable values which should make the problem more bearable. 
It'll take some time to figure out how to make timeouts more intelligent 
without breaking support for slow devices.  I'll work on that.

I'm attaching a temporary patch for the time being.

-- 
tejun

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