Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:30:32 -0500 | From | Alejandro Bonilla <> | Subject | Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer)) |
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Jens Axboe wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Lenz Grimmer wrote: > > >>>I'll be working on adding sysfs stuff to it tomorrow so it's generally >>>useful (at least for monitoring things - not yet for parking disk >>>heads). >>> >>> >>Maybe there is some kind of all-purpose ATA command that instructs the >>disk drive to park the heads? Jens, could you give us a hint on how a >>userspace application would do that? >> >> > >Dunno if there's something that explicitly only parks the head, the best >option is probably to issue a STANDBY_NOW command. You can test this >with hdparm -y. > > This is exactly what I said. Use hdparm to make the HD park inmediatelly. I did send the email to the HDPARM developer, but he never replied. I asked him what would be the best way to make the HD park with no exception and then let it come back 5 or 10 seconds later.
Never heard back. ;-(
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