To answer my own question .. to restore power save operation:
# sdparm -a /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb: Seagate FreeAgentDesktop 100D
Power condition mode page:
IDLE0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0]
STANDBY 0 [cha: n, def: 1, sav: 0]
ICT 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0]
SCT
Agree - both methods work (getting udev to set allow_restart) and by
turning-off standby with sdparm:
% sdparm --clear STANDBY -6 /dev/sda
The big question for me .. how does one re-enable STANDBY mode on this
drive? sdparm fails to switch it back on, and even power cycles haven't
reenabled
Did you ever found a solution for this one?
I have the same problem with a Seagate FreeAgent 320GB running Ubuntu
Edgy with 2.6.17-11-generic.
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I also have "Device not ready"-problems when my FreeAgent USB drive spins up.
This seems to be the way to disable spindown:
$ sudo sdparm -al /dev/sda
/dev/sda: Seagate FreeAgentDesktop 100D
Direct access
Subject: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686: USB HD gives I/O errors while spinning up
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686
Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12
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I recently purchased a Seagate FreeAgent hard drive. Seagate sets the drive
to spin down after about 15 minutes if there is no activity. Ther
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