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On Nov 15 2006 11:58, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >On Nov 14 2006 13:06, Mark Lord wrote:>> Jan Engelhardt wrote:>>> >>> Let me jump in here. Short info: Toshiba MK2003GAH 1.8" 20GB PATA >>> harddisk, in a Sony Vaio U3 (x86, gray-blue PhoenixBIOS). >>> If idle for more than 5 secs, unloads. Even when not inside any OS, which >>> really sets me off. >>> So I wrote a quick workaround hack for Linux, http://tinyurl.com/y3qs6g >>> It reads a predefined amount of bytes (just as much to not cause slowdown >>> yet still cause it to not unload) from the disk at fixed intervals.>>>> Thanks for the info.>> Jan, in your specific case, can you not "fix it" properly with: >> >> hdparm -B255 /dev/?d?>>No not really. The unload threshold only raises up to about 15 seconds. -B254 was more promising: unload timeout was like 2 minutes. What's more: upon every reboot, the power management value is set back to 128. I guess I'll stay with thkd.ko for more time. -`J' -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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