On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 07:15:36PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > >Turns out I was stracing /sbin/hdparm and not ./hdparm (doh). If I > >strace the right binary I get: > > > > ioctl(3, SG_IO, {'S', SG_DXFER_NONE, cmd[12]=[a1, 06, 20, 05, fd, > > 00, 00, 00, 40, ef, 00, 00], mx_sb_len=32, iovec_count=0, > > dxfer_len=0, timeout=5000, flags=0, status=02, masked_status=01, > > sb[22]=[72, 0b, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 0e, 09, 0c, 00, 04, 00, fd, 00, > > 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 40, 51], host_status=0, driver_status=0x8, > > resid=0, duration=1, info=0x1}) = 0 > > > >Does that mean the drive doesn't support SET_FEATURES/{05,85} (weird)? > .. > > Dunno.. do this instead, and show the output: > > hdparm --verbose -B /dev/sdb [root@heth hdparm-9.10]# ./hdparm --verbose -B 254 /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254) outgoing cdb: a1 06 20 05 fe 00 00 00 40 ef 00 00 00 00 00 00 SG_IO: ATA_12 status=0x2, host_status=0x0, driver_status=0x8 SG_IO: sb[]: 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0e 09 0c 00 04 00 fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 SG_IO: desc[]: 09 0c 00 04 00 fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 ATA_12 stat=51 err=04 nsect=fe lbal=00 lbam=00 lbah=00 dev=40 I/O error, ata_op=0xef ata_status=0x51 ata_error=0x04 HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error [root@heth hdparm-9.10]# -- 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