Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265671AbTF2Om0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:42:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265674AbTF2Om0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:42:26 -0400 Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.115]:47876 "HELO smtp018.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265671AbTF2OmZ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:42:25 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: linux kernel mailing list Subject: IDE-disk spindown fails Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 16:56:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306291656.32704.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1603 Lines: 52 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I have a problem spinning down my Western Digital 80GB harddisk. root@server:~> cat /proc/ide/hdc/model WDC WD800BB-00CAA1 Neither hdparm -S nor noflushd is able to spin down this disk. The machine is a very old Pentium 1 machine. It's BIOS doesn't recognize this new (I've bought it a few days ago) harddisk. So I've set this IDE-channel to "none" in the BIOS to avoid very long searches on this channel from BIOS while booting. Reading and writing on the disk works quite fine. /dev/hda is the drive, the system is installed on. It's a very old 2GB Quantum drive. root@server:~> cat /proc/ide/hda/model QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM2110A The BIOS recognizes it and I'm able to spindown it. Does linux depend on the BIOS when spinning down? root@server:~> cat /proc/version Linux version 2.4.21 (mb@lfs) (gcc-Version 3.3.1 20030519 (prerelease)) #2 Son Jun 15 13:08:42 CEST 2003 If you want me to run any tests on the machine, or if you want some information, I've not given, just ask, please. - -- Regards Michael B?sch http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft 16:45:47 up 5:54, 4 users, load average: 1.05, 1.04, 1.08 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+/v4goxoigfggmSgRAmnuAJ9z+ih7RLTZm4xPvk2k0a8Ia4wz9QCfckcI onkajeTZ37uxFsjmSBmgVIc= =PgqV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/