Not so -- we do so care! I get the same behavior on 2.4.19-ac4.
I ran hdparm -Y /dev/hdd on an IBM 120GB DeskStar. The specs sheet
recommends no more than 8 hours of power-on a day, so I use it as a backup
drive. The machine it's on is never turned off.
Clarification: is it the case that hdparm -Y (sleep) will cool the drive
off better than hdparm -y (suspend)?
I read somewhere that -Y only works on unmounted drives. This appears to
be false. Comments?
Cheers,
Peter
jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote,
>> On RH7.3 (2.4.18-3) if I do:
>> $ hdparm -Y /dev/hda
>> $ do stuff and disk spins up
>> $ hdparm -Y /dev/hda
>> $ everything hangs waiting for disk
>
>It *IS* a bug, but only Mark Lord, (the hdparm maintainer), and I seem to
>care about it - everybody else says, "just do hdparm -y instead", which
>is missing the point.
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