[ltp] hdparm & spindown time : still having problems

[Jiang Qian]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:49:55PM +0000, Paul RIVIER wrote:
> Shem Multinymous wrote:
> 
> >On 12/15/05, Paul RIVIER <paul.rivier@eleve.emn.fr> wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>And again, in any case, hdparm -y /dev/hda works.
> >>Again, this is *not* a IO problem.
> >>Any idea please ?
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Access to the SMART functions (e.g., smartd, hddtemp and smartctl)
> >will also trigger a spin up.
> >
> > Shem
> > 
> >
> I knew about that, so I desactivated every services concerning SMART,
> and I never used hddtemp (basicaly because ibm-acpi provides enought 
> data IMHO).
> 
> So nothing solved yet :(
> 
> Jiang Qian, do you have exactly the same behaviour on your system ?
I have identical problem, i.e. hdparm -S 5 only make the head park 
after 25 seconds but don't spin down the drive whereas hdparm -y works.
Jiang
> 
> Is someone runing ubuntu on a T42 with no such problem here ?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> 
> paul
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