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Message-ID: <470F7705.3@rtr.ca>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:30:45 -0400
From: Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
To: crash@...ysoft.com
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hdparm standby timeout not working for WD raptors?
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
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