[ltp] hdparm & spindown time : still having problems

[Javier (a.k.a AlBundy)]

On 12/14/05, Paul RIVIER <paul.rivier@eleve.emn.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for a reason I really can't understand, issuing hdparm -S 5 /dev/hda
> will never spin the disk down.
> I know that was already discussed here, but not really solve.
>
> This is not a problem of IO on the disk, as I use laptop mode and a
> hdparm -y /dev/hda command will spin it down perfectly and until then
> next IO call.

Maybe a problematic process.

Can you post:
 [root]# ps -aux

Javier