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/ -- 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