On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 07:20:20PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > >> 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 > .. > > Ahh.. there ya go. Mmmm.. You *could* try again with hdparm-9.11 > (on Sourceforge now.. forgot to upload it earlier). > > The difference being, 9.11 will use ATA_16 instead of ATA_12 by default for > SAT. > Some enclosures care about that, but drives shouldn't care. OK, that gives the same error: [root@heth hdparm-9.11]# ./hdparm -B 254 --verbose /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254) outgoing cdb: 85 06 20 00 05 00 fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 ef 00 SG_IO: ATA_16 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_16 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-9.11]# -- 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