bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxx writes: > a couple of seconds after successful resume my system transitions down to pc8. > hdparm manual doesn't explicitly tell what command is issued with the -Y > switch. SLEEP. One problem with using it though is that several things tend to wake the drive up from it soon. I've had patches to address this for years. Maybe I'll finally get them merged soon. Those things are: 1) smartd or udisks2 polling the SMART status of the drive. They already issue CHECK POWER CONDITION first to see if the drive is in STANDBY and if so, don't bother with the SMART read. That avoids waking up a disk in STANDBY mode, but in SLEEP, you can't even ask the drive whether it's in standby without waking it up. 2) A mounted filesystem periodically issues a FLUSH CACHE command, even if nothing has been written. A drive in STANDBY just ignores it but in SLEEP, it wakes up. I would imagine at once you access the disk in some way and so it wakes up, you won't get back to pc8 again without another hdparm -Y? Is that correct?
