Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:37:52 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: hdparm standby timeout not working for WD raptors? |
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Mark Weber wrote: > I can't get "hdparm -S" to work at all. > > Using "hdparm -S 1" should set the timeout to > 5 seconds, but the drives stay active/idle all the > time. When I set to standby manually, the drives > stay on standby for days, and start up fine when > they are used. I know this because I logged status > every 30 minutes using crontab. > > They just don't standby automatically. > > I'm using 5 identical drives (see below for drive > info), with software RAID.
I don't have Raptors here anymore to try it with, but "hdparm -S1 /dev/sd?" did work fine with them when last tried.
What do you get when you try this:
hdparm -S1 -C /dev/sda;sleep 6; hdparm -C /dev/sda
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