> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 03:27:56PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I made some tests, but it is strange to me. > >dparm -Y /dev/sdb > > I don't use the "-Y" (uppercase) option, so I really can't comment on > it ... lower case (-y) works lie a charm here ... > > > > >/dev/sdb: > > issuing sleep command > > > >then > > > >hdparm -C /dev/sdb > > > >/dev/sdb: > > drive state is: active/idle > > Not sure what this means - are you sure you didn't end the "sleep" of > the disk with this command, or is there some other process trying to > access the disk that spinned it up again? - if you really want to > issue the "-Y" switch maybe try the smartctl command you mentioned > after rendering the disk to sleep, with the appropriate > "-nocheck=<whatever>" (see man page) flag .... There maybe a good reason why I cannot put this drive at sleep. The /tmp partition is on this disk! > And maybe check whether there are read/writes to the disk? > Someth. like: > > dstat -dc -C total -f 5 > > Again: the lower case hdparm "-y" flag seems to just be working > here. The standy tho' is finished, IIRC, once I suspend and resume the > computer. > > Wolfgang > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx