[ltp] hdparm & spindown time : still having problems

[Paul RIVIER]

Shem Multinymous wrote:

>On 12/16/05, Paul RIVIER <paul.rivier@eleve.emn.fr> wrote:
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>>hdparm -S 1 /dev/hda command.
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>On my drive, very low values of -S seem to be ignored.
>"/sbin/hdparm -B 128 -S 18" works nicely.
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>  Shem
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I just tried
hdparm -B128 -S18 /dev/hda

and I started as well to monitor :
vmstat 5 | cat -n

After 18 lines, ie the time set by hdparm, of inactivity,
nothing happens :)

I really wonder if it is a ubuntu-specific problem.
Something weird is that I used to get it to work few months ago ...

Btw, thank you a lot for your help, I can appreciate that we are not
many people having such troubles.


Paul