Re: Disk shock protection interferes with standby timers, please advise

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Hi,

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 12:16:00AM +0100, Elias Oltmanns wrote:
> On the other hand,
> 
> # hdparm -I /dev/sda
> 
> also reenables the standby timer yet leaves the heads alone. So my
> question is this: Can anyone give some advice as to what command what be
> suitable to be issued instead of Idle Immediate when the shock
> protection timeout has elapsed? Basically, it should be cheap, cause no
> “mechanical action”, and be anything *but* Check Power Mode.

Well, it does not reenable the standby timer on my ST9500420AS drive, so that
isn't a universal solution either.  And since so few people care about this
problem, this doesn't seem to be worth a quirk database or something like
that.  I'll just keep applying the patch, then.  :-)

Regards,
-- 
Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/
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