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SubjectRe: hdparm standby timeout not working for WD raptors?
Mark Weber wrote:
>
> # hdparm -S1 -C /dev/sda; sleep 6; hdparm -C /dev/sda
>
> /dev/sda:
> setting standby to 1 (5 seconds)
> drive state is: active/idle
>
> /dev/sda:
> drive state is: active/idle

That's interesting.

So, either something is regularly accessing/polling the drive,
or it just doesn't work with the standby timer.

Are there any interesting kernel messages being generated
during execution of those commands?

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