When a disk is in SLEEP mode it can not respond to commands, including the CHECK POWER command. Instead of waking up the sleeping disk, fake the reply to the CHECK POWER command to indicate the disk is in standby mode. This prevents udisks from waking up sleeping disks when it polls to see if they are awake or not before trying to read their smart status. --- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c index 83b1a9f..686c441 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c @@ -5084,6 +5084,14 @@ void ata_qc_issue(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc) /* if device is sleeping, schedule reset and abort the link */ if (unlikely(qc->dev->flags & ATA_DFLAG_SLEEPING)) { + if (unlikely(qc->tf.command == ATA_CMD_CHK_POWER)) + { + /* fake reply to avoid waking drive */ + qc->flags &= ~ATA_QCFLAG_RESULT_TF; + qc->result_tf.nsect = 0; + ata_qc_complete(qc); + return; + } link->eh_info.action |= ATA_EH_RESET; ata_ehi_push_desc(&link->eh_info, "waking up from sleep"); ata_link_abort(link); -- 1.8.3.2 -- 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