Mark Weber wrote:
# hdparm -S1 -C /dev/sda; sleep 6; hdparm -C /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting standby to 1 (5 seconds) drive state is: active/idle /dev/sda: drive state is: active/idle
That's interesting. So, either something is regularly accessing/polling the drive, or it just doesn't work with the standby timer. Are there any interesting kernel messages being generated during execution of those commands? -ml - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/