Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Buesch <> | Subject | Re: IDE-disk spindown fails | Date | Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:39:56 +0200 |
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Sorry, I found out, that it's not a kernel problem. It's a problem with the userspace noflushd daemon.
On Sunday 29 June 2003 16:56, Michael Buesch wrote: > Hi. > > I have a problem spinning down my Western Digital 80GB harddisk. > root@server:~> cat /proc/ide/hdc/model > WDC WD800BB-00CAA1 > > Neither hdparm -S nor noflushd is able to spin down this disk. > > The machine is a very old Pentium 1 machine. It's BIOS doesn't > recognize this new (I've bought it a few days ago) harddisk. > So I've set this IDE-channel to "none" in the BIOS to avoid > very long searches on this channel from BIOS while booting. > > Reading and writing on the disk works quite fine. > > /dev/hda is the drive, the system is installed on. > It's a very old 2GB Quantum drive. > root@server:~> cat /proc/ide/hda/model > QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM2110A > > The BIOS recognizes it and I'm able to spindown it. > > > Does linux depend on the BIOS when spinning down? > > root@server:~> cat /proc/version > Linux version 2.4.21 (mb@lfs) (gcc-Version 3.3.1 20030519 (prerelease)) #2 > Son Jun 15 13:08:42 CEST 2003 > > If you want me to run any tests on the machine, or if you > want some information, I've not given, just ask, please.
- -- Regards Michael Büsch http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft 20:38:10 up 9:47, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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