Re: (reiserfs) Re: sync: why disk cannot spin down

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2000 - 09:05:08 EST


On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Xuan Baldauf wrote:

> Now I made all my partitions noatime, and wow,
>
> sync; hdparm -C -Y /dev/hda; sync; hdparm -C /dev/hda
>
> does not necessarily spin up the disk!

Because you have to issue a drive reset.

Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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