[ltp] Re: head unload on a Seagate Momentus 5400.4

Evgeni Golov linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:08:32 +0100


On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:37:55 +0200 Mircea Gherzan wrote:

> The big question is: why is there no error (i.e. EOPNOTSUPP) when
> reading or writing this device attribute in sysfs? Is this a kernel bug?
> Might the kernel "accidentally" clear the ATA_DFLAG_NO_UNLOAD bit from
> the device flags?

What does hdparm -I tell about the drive? ATA-7 standard and NO
IDLE_IMMEDIATE?

Regards
Evgeni