On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:42:39AM +0200, Frederic wrote: > lee wrote: >> How do you know that the disk stops? Or do you mean it stops working >> and becomes unusable? > > It stops working and becomes unusable. If I reboot and log me in, i > can't do it because it stops working.
That's very likely not a problem with the power management then. I would have said it might the firmware of the disk, but when it's working with Slackware, it must be something else. >> But you might have to turn off AHCI in the BIOS before it works >> without AHCI. When you do that, AHCI shouldn't work --- that might an >> easy way to disable it. > > I can't disable it in the bios.. i don't find any options about AHCI, > ACPI, APM,.. Have you tried to disable it when booting, or tried to use a kernel that doesn't have any AHCI modules and doesn't have any AHCI support compiled in? >> See also man hdparm, maybe hdparm can tell you more about the disk and >> it's power management. > > hdparm -i "AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled" What does it say which disk it is? I have some Maxtor disks that needed a firmware update ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
