RE: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

From: Alejandro Bonilla
Date: Thu Jul 07 2005 - 12:00:26 EST



> --- Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 7/7/05, Martin Knoblauch <knobi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Interesting. Same Notebook, same drive. The program say "not
> > parked"
> > > :-( This is on FC2 with a pretty much vanilla 2.6.9 kernel.
> > >
> > > [root@l15833 tmp]# hdparm -i /dev/hda
> > >
> > > /dev/hda:
> > >
> > > Model=HTS726060M9AT00, FwRev=MH4OA6BA, SerialNo=MRH403M4GS88XB
> >
> > haji ~ # hdparm -i /dev/hda
> >
> > /dev/hda:
> >
> > Model=HTS726060M9AT00, FwRev=MH4OA6DA, SerialNo=MRH453M4H2A6PB
>
> OK, different FW levels. After upgrading my disk to MH40A6GA my head
> parks :-) Minimum required level for this disk seems to be A6DA. Hope
> this info is useful.

Martin,

Simply upgrading your firmware fixed your problem for being to park the
head?

.Alejandro

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