Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Dec 1998 12:47:58 +0100 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: Re: IDE freeze for seconds |
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On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 10:05:12PM +0100, Johnny Teveßen wrote: > Quoting Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz): > > > Get bdflush-1.6 from sunsite, there's way to postpone writes until > > disk is spinned up again. I believe this is what you want. > > That's interesting. I was told that there's no way to find out whether > an IDE drive is spinning or not. At least not without spinning it up.
There is, unless it is in sleep mode. Check hdparm which can report the driver power state: operation, idle, standby, sleep. The latter two with stopped disks, the former two with spinning disks. To recover from sleep mode, you will need a soft- or hardware reset.
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