On Sunday 13 April 2008 04:11:15 Tejun Heo wrote: > Is auto spindown configured for the drive? I don't think so - it's a 3.5" drive with no special PM features - but how to tell? Tvrtko root@sol:~# hdparm -i /dev/sda /dev/sda: Model=WDC WD3200AAKS-00VYA0 , FwRev=12.01B02, SerialNo= WD-WCARW0059893 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=50 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=16384kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?0? CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: Unspecified: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6,7 * signifies the current active mode root@sol:~# sdparm -a /dev/sda /dev/sda: ATA WDC WD3200AAKS-0 12.0 Read write error recovery mode page: AWRE 1 ARRE 0 TB 0 RC 0 EER 0 PER 0 DTE 0 DCR 0 RRC 0 COR_S 0 HOC 0 DSOC 0 WRC 0 RTL 0 Caching (SBC) mode page: IC 0 ABPF 0 CAP 0 DISC 0 SIZE 0 WCE 1 MF 0 RCD 0 DRRP 0 WRP 0 DPTL 0 MIPF 0 MAPF 0 MAPFC 0 FSW 0 LBCSS 0 DRA 0 NV_DIS 0 NCS 0 CSS 0 Control mode page: TST 0 TMF_ONLY 0 D_SENSE 0 GLTSD 1 RLEC 0 QAM 0 QERR 0 RAC 0 UA_INTLCK 0 SWP 0 ATO 0 TAS 0 AUTOLOAD 0 BTP -1 ESTCT 30 -- 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