Re: hdparm standby timeout not working for WD raptors?
From: Mark Lord
Date: Fri Oct 12 2007 - 09:30:58 EST
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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