Jeff wrote:
I think we would want to test bit 6 of IDENTIFY DEVICE word 83, issue SET FEATURES - SPIN UP command if set, otherwise do a READ VERIFY or some other media access command
The word-2 signature values already give us that information, and I'm not certain that we can rely upon word 83 even being "present" when a drive has not spun up. I see lots of zeros in the upper words of the IDENTIFY info from drives in this state. Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
