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Subject: Re: [patch] My AMD IDE driver, v2.7
To: pavel@suse.cz (Pavel Machek)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 00:25:58 +0000 (GMT)
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> > receives a command when not spinned up. You need to issue a wake command
> > first, which hdparm doesn't, it just leaves it to the kernel to issue a
> > read command or whatever to wake the drive ...
> 
> Is this common disk bug, or are they permitted to behave like that?

Its not that common, but these sort of things happen sometimes. IDE is
very much a defensive driver 
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