Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:44:17 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up) |
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On Thu, Jul 07 2005, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > > > ATA7 defines a park maneuvre, I don't know how well supported it is > > > yet though. You can test with this little app, if it says 'head > > > parked' it works. If not, it has just idled the drive. > > On 7/7/05, Lenz Grimmer <lenz@grimmer.com> wrote: > > Great! Thanks for digging this up - it works on my T42, using a Fujitsu > > MHT2080AH drive: > > Works on my T42p which uses a Hitachi HTS726060M9AT00 drive. I don't > hear any sound, though.
Did it say 'head parked'? If the drive is idle, you wont hear anything. Laptop drives auto-park really quickly themselves. A time ./park /dev/hda should tell you whether it needed to park or not, if it executes faster than a few hundred ms it was already parked.
-- Jens Axboe
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