--- Alejandro Bonilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 7/7/05, Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Interesting. Same Notebook, same drive. The program say "not > > > parked" > > > > :-( This is on FC2 with a pretty much vanilla 2.6.9 kernel. > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# hdparm -i /dev/hda > > > > > > > > /dev/hda: > > > > > > > > Model=HTS726060M9AT00, FwRev=MH4OA6BA, SerialNo=MRH403M4GS88XB > > > > > > haji ~ # hdparm -i /dev/hda > > > > > > /dev/hda: > > > > > > Model=HTS726060M9AT00, FwRev=MH4OA6DA, SerialNo=MRH453M4H2A6PB > > > > OK, different FW levels. After upgrading my disk to MH40A6GA my > head > > parks :-) Minimum required level for this disk seems to be A6DA. > Hope > > this info is useful. > > Martin, > > Simply upgrading your firmware fixed your problem for being to park > the > head? >
Yup. Do not forget that FW is very powerful. Likely the parking feature was added after A6BA. Basically I saw that the only difference between me and Pekka was the FW (discounting the different CPU speed and Kernel version). I googled around and found the IBM FW page at: http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=ibm&lndocid=MIGR-41008 Download is simple, just don't use the "IBM Download Manager". Main problem is that one needs a bootable floopy drive and "the other OS" to create a bootable floppy. It would be great if IBM could provide floppy images for use with "dd" for the poor Linux users. Then I pondered over the risk involved with the update. Curiosity won :-) And now the head parks. BUT - I definitely do not encourage anybody to perform the procedure. Do at your own risk after thinking about the possible consequences ... Anyway someone reported a non working HTS548040M9AT00 with FW revision MG2OA53A. The newest revision, from the same floppy image, is A5HA. Cheers Martin ------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - 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/
