Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:30:45 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: hdparm standby timeout not working for WD raptors? |
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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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