Sorry about the long delay. Fredrik Tuomas wrote: > In the pdf on > > http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/disc/manuals/desktop/Barracuda%20LP/100564361a.pdf > > you can read that APM is not supported on the disk. Now I'm confused. > I can set APM on at least one of my drives. How can I prohibit the > excessive loading/unloading of the heads if APM not is supported? There are drives with vendor specific commands for controlling powersaving behavior. Unfortunately, you'll have to contact the vendor for those. :-( Thanks. -- tejun -- 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