Re: [RFC] Disable disk spinup during system resume

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On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Pádraig Brady wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a secondary sata disk (sda)  in my system that
> I would like not to spinup on resume.
> The primary disk is an SSD.
> 
> I tried this to no avail:
> 
>   echo 0 > /sys/block/sda/device/scsi_disk/*/manage_start_stop

That should have worked.  It prevents sd_resume() from doing anything 
to the drive.

Are you sure that the kernel is responsible for spinning up the drive?  
Maybe you have a program running in the background that does this 
automatically.

> I can "manually" run this after each resume, but it
> introduces ware and delays I would like to avoid.
> 
>   sdparm -r -C STOP /dev/sda
> 
> Note all partitions on the disk are "noauto" in fstab,
> and I would have thought the kernel wouldn't need
> to BLKRRPART on resume?
> 
> Any ideas appreciated.

Try adding a dump_stack() line to 
drivers/scsi/sd.c:sd_start_stop_device() and see what shows up in the 
kernel log.

Alan Stern

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