Messages in this thread | | | From | Frans Pop <> | Subject | Re: HP accelerometer driver: testers wanted | Date | Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:59:25 +0100 |
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On Friday 23 January 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > The LED lights up yellow, but I have problems telling if the disk gets > parked or not. One time I got a green led and seemingly a fair amount > of activity immediately after getting the yellow led. > > After looking at hpfall.c, I checked /sys/block/sda/device/unload_heads > after a drop: > $ cat /sys/block/sda/device/unload_heads > 19616 > $ cat /sys/block/sda/device/unload_heads > 0 > > The last was at most 2 seconds after the first, certainly not 20...
I've just looked at hpcall.c a bit closer and I guess that's because of the alarm(2) call? I must admit having some problems reading that code.
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