[ltp] Re: New HDD: hdaps support?

[Hunter Fuller]

Judging by that disk's INCREDIBLY LARGE model number, it's a Hitachi  
drive, and I've bought large disks for my ThinkPad, up to 160gB, from  
them and had no trouble - except the firmware update, which was  
necessary.

Also, I believe standby is more wear on the drive, which is why it's  
telling you about it - cause doing that repeatedly is one way to  
shave some years off your drive.

On  08 Jul 2006, at 2:18, Whoopie wrote:

> Hi,
>
> you could try to update the HDD firmware to the Lenovo/IBM release.
>
> A bootable CD IS= can be found here:
> http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do? 
> sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-62282
>
> Instructions how to do it are here:
> http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=20858
>
> Best regards,
> Whoopie
>
> Andrew Barr schrieb:
>> I bought a bigger and faster hard disk for my ThinkPad, but now  
>> hdaps is
>> behaving differently with it. When it's triggered, this shows up  
>> in the
>> kernel log:
>>
>> idedisk_issue_protect_fn(): unload support NOT reported by drive!..
>> ide_protect_queue(): head park not requested, used standby!..
>>
>> What exactly does this mean and is it any better/worse than having  
>> unload/head
>> park support, as I apparently did with my previous disk? Here is  
>> the output
>> of "hdparm -I /dev/hda":
>>
>> /dev/hda:
>>
>> ATA device, with non-removable media
>>         Model Number:       HTS541010G9AT00
>>         Serial Number:      MP20MAX0HLKYLR
>>         Firmware Revision:  MBZOA60A
>> Standards:
>>         Used: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a
>>         Supported: 6 5 4
>> Configuration:
>>         Logical         max     current
>>         cylinders       16383   65535
>>         heads           16      1
>>         sectors/track   63      63
>>         --
>>         CHS current addressable sectors:    4128705
>>         LBA    user addressable sectors:  195371568
>>         LBA48  user addressable sectors:  195371568
>>         device size with M = 1024*1024:       95396 MBytes
>>         device size with M = 1000*1000:      100030 MBytes (100 GB)
>> Capabilities:
>>         LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
>>         Standby timer values: spec'd by Vendor, no device specific  
>> minimum
>>         R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16  Current = 16
>>         Advanced power management level: 128 (0x80)
>>         Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value:  
>> 254
>>         DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
>>              Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
>>         PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
>>              Cycle time: no flow control=240ns  IORDY flow  
>> control=120ns
>> Commands/features:
>>         Enabled Supported:
>>                 SMART feature set
>>                 Security Mode feature set
>>            *    Power Management feature set
>>            *    Write cache
>>            *    Look-ahead
>>            *    Host Protected Area feature set
>>            *    WRITE_BUFFER command
>>            *    READ_BUFFER command
>>            *    NOP cmd
>>            *    DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
>>            *    Advanced Power Management feature set
>>                 Power-Up In Standby feature set
>>            *    SET_FEATURES required to spinup after power up
>>                 Address Offset Reserved Area Boot
>>                 SET_MAX security extension
>>            *    Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
>>            *    48-bit Address feature set
>>            *    Device Configuration Overlay feature set
>>            *    Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
>>            *    FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
>>            *    SMART error logging
>>            *    SMART self-test
>>            *    General Purpose Logging feature set
>> Security:
>>         Master password revision code = 65534
>>                 supported
>>         not     enabled
>>         not     locked
>>                 frozen
>>         not     expired: security count
>>         not     supported: enhanced erase
>>         64min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT.
>> HW reset results:
>>         CBLID- above Vih
>>         Device num = 0 determined by the jumper
>> Checksum: correct
>>
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