This one time, at band camp, Andrew Pollock said: > Whilst playing around with hdparm -C on some IDE drives connected via > IDE-USB adapters, it became apparent that it was reporting standby, when > it really should have been reporting unknown. This is apparent when > running hdparm under strace. It gets an ENOTTY back from the ioctl() > call, and then goes on to report the drive being in a standby state. It > should, according to the manpage, be reporting "unknown".
Can yuo send me the complete strace output? What you're reporting is not exactly what I see in the code, so I'd like to look it over. Thanks, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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