Re: hdparm standby timeout not working for WD raptors?

From: Mark Lord
Date: Fri Oct 12 2007 - 09:30:58 EST


Mark Weber wrote:

# hdparm -S1 -C /dev/sda; sleep 6; hdparm -C /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
setting standby to 1 (5 seconds)
drive state is: active/idle

/dev/sda:
drive state is: active/idle

That's interesting.

So, either something is regularly accessing/polling the drive,
or it just doesn't work with the standby timer.

Are there any interesting kernel messages being generated
during execution of those commands?

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