> I've already told Akumar offlist, just writing it to the list for > documentation: > that auto sleep mode on seagates can be disabled on linux (dunno about > *BSD) as well with sdparm. I don't remember the args for sure, but > probably something like > 'sdparm -c STANDBY /dev/sdX#' > then > 'sdparm -s /dev/sdX#' > to save.
if you have an ata drive and you're using contrib quanstro/sd, atazz can do the same thing chula# atazz /dev/sdC0 az> idle sc 0 az> set features disable apm az> atazz isn't a magic swiss army knife like (hd|sd)parm. you can think of it like a drive console. imagine you have a glass tty plugged into your ra05. except a bazillion times more complicated. if the drive doesn't support the apm feature set, the second command will not be supported, but the drive will always be in full-power mode. the rub is that you must reset these values each time you connect to an ata device. the settings can't be saved. fortunately, the sata drivers all set the power mode on startup. you could script atazz to get ide drivers as well. if you have a scsi drive, you can do this with scuzz. you'll need to cobble together the correct modeselect10 bytes by hand. i've done this before, but don't happen to have the correct stuff handy. sorry. i should have added the correct incantations when i was working with it. - erik
