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SubjectRe: 2.6.18-rc2, problem to wake up spinned down drive?
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Harald Dunkel wrote:
>> Tejun Heo wrote:
>>> Can you try the following instead of hdparm?
>>>
>>> echo 1 > /sys/bus/scsi/devices/1:0:0:0/power/state
>>>
>>> It will make libata involved in putting the disk to sleep and waking it
>>> up, and, when waking, it will kick the drive in the ass by resetting the
>>> channel. Please try with the latest -rc kernel.
>>>
>>
>> Sorry to say, but this did not work:
>>
>> # echo 1 > /sys/bus/scsi/devices/0:0:0:0/power/state
>> bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
>> # ll !$
>> ll /sys/bus/scsi/devices/0:0:0:0/power/state
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 1 20:00
>> /sys/bus/scsi/devices/0:0:0:0/power/state
>> # cat !$
>> cat /sys/bus/scsi/devices/0:0:0:0/power/state
>> 0
>> # uname -a
>> Linux bugs 2.6.18-rc3 #2 PREEMPT Sun Jul 30 16:26:22 CEST 2006 i686
>> GNU/Linux
>
> You probably should do 'echo -n 1', the parsing function is pretty picky.
>
Given that the data from the "cat" of state returned a zero with
newline, perhaps unreasonably picky. On a Fedora kernel it just doesn't
seem to work for SATA drives, sample size = 1.

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