Hello, On 03/09/2010 11:40 PM, Mark Lord wrote: > The default on these drives is to unload heads > after a mere eight (8) seconds of inactivity. > > Ugh. Heh, yeah, that's pretty low. I hope they eventually learn to adjust that dynamically considering running avg of intervals between writes. It shouldn't be too hard. > The wdidle3-1.03 DOS tool can fix that. Google it. > > I have disassembled that tool here, and found a few > vendor-unique commands inside it. But thus far have > not managed to get them working natively in Linux. > > I really need a SATA tracer/analyser.. Hmmm... so they don't respond to ATA APM command? 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
