Re: hdparm -Y hangup

[Peter]

Not so -- we do so care! I get the same behavior on 2.4.19-ac4. 

I ran hdparm -Y /dev/hdd on an IBM 120GB DeskStar. The specs sheet 
recommends no more than 8 hours of power-on a day, so I use it as a backup 
drive. The machine it's on is never turned off.

Clarification: is it the case that hdparm -Y (sleep) will cool the drive 
off better than hdparm -y (suspend)?

I read somewhere that -Y only works on unmounted drives. This appears to 
be false. Comments?

Cheers,
Peter

[e-mail] wrote,

>> On RH7.3 (2.4.18-3) if I do:
>> $ hdparm -Y /dev/hda
>> $ do stuff and disk spins up
>> $ hdparm -Y /dev/hda
>> $ everything hangs waiting for disk
>                   
>It *IS* a bug, but only Mark Lord, (the hdparm maintainer), and I seem to 
>care about it - everybody else says, "just do hdparm -y instead", which 
>is missing the point.