Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: SMART support for libata | From | Greg Stark <> | Date | 09 Jun 2005 14:13:57 -0400 |
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Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca> writes:
> Greg Stark wrote: > .. > >>You should be using "-y" (standby) instead of "-Y" (sleep). > > I'll try that. But that's not going to make it spin up when it gets a SMART > > query is it? > > Depends on what SMART items are being queried. > > Actually, what you should *really* be using is "hdparm -S" > with a suitable timeout value (say, 30 or larger).
Not really since the drive will just spin up ever few seconds as bdflush (or whatever it's called these days) dribbles out pages.
What I should *really* be using is the noflushd daemon. That's been on hold since I found it didn't work with SATA drives. But I wonder if it would work these days.
-- greg
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