Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936298AbXFHBu0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:50:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765437AbXFHBuM (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:50:12 -0400 Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:38387 "EHLO out4.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763802AbXFHBuK (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:50:10 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: gz3cIc+kyz8GRMB7MuL2jHvZzy3hE0yRPvpprX/YMr+A 1181267409 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:50:04 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: Mark Lord Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Steinbrink , Robert Hancock , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bad behaviour after hdparm -M 128 Message-ID: <20070608015004.GA16785@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <4666C4B9.8060408@shaw.ca> <20070606154442.GB13166@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20070606162425.GA3943@atjola.homenet> <20070606164854.GA18984@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20070606175112.GA4659@atjola.homenet> <20070606210337.GA31549@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20070606213617.GA6580@atjola.homenet> <20070606215232.GC31549@khazad-dum.debian.net> <466827FF.1030304@rtr.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <466827FF.1030304@rtr.ca> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1024D/1CDB0FE3 5422 5C61 F6B7 06FB 7E04 3738 EE25 DE3F 1CDB 0FE3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1267 Lines: 31 On Thu, 07 Jun 2007, Mark Lord wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >On Wed, 06 Jun 2007, Bj?rn Steinbrink wrote: > >>HDAPS support is available, revision is MB2IA60A. > > > >That would usually rule out the possibility of it being the firmware, but > >we > >have different disks, so different firmware. > > > >It looks like I will have to try 2.6.22 to know for sure. > > "hdparm -I" should list "Automatic Acoustic Management feature set" > (near the bottom) for any drive that *does* support the -M feature. I just tracked it down to hdparm. Version 6.9 (the one in Debian stable) doesn't work right with libata. Version 7.5 (the one in Debian unstable) works fine. So, at least in my side, there are *no* kernel bugs. Maybe this is also the case for the poster that reported the problem? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh - 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/