Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

[Dave J. Boers]

On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 08:44:42PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> There is no way to see if the disk was in suspend mode, you can
> give it a command and se how long it takes before it comes back :)
> 
> The problem here is that it takes the command and OK's it, but it
> takes the spinuptime + overhead before the answer comes, and then
> the driver already timed out. 

I am under the impression that the drive does not need to do ADM if it is
shutdown once every six days. So can't we go with phk's solution: make a
cron job that shuts down and powers up the drive once every six days? 

Regards,

Dave. 

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