From: Padraig Brady <padraig.brady@corvil.com>
To: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hdparm -Y hangup
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 09:32:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D8ED192.6060109@corvil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200209211813.g8LIDEqQ001330@darkstar.example.net
jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote:
>>This seems like a bug in the ide driver not issuing a reset?
>>
>>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.
Hrm, OK thanks for the info. Perhaps it should be removed
from hdparm or a (DANGEROUS) put beside the description
until it's fixed.
>
> Incidently, I think you mean:
>
> 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
>
> with a lower case y for the first example.
No it seemed to wake up correctly the first time with -Y.
As you say -y works always.
> So, unless you, I, or Mark Lord fixes it, it stays broken :-).
cheers,
Pádraig.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-23 8:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-20 14:24 hdparm -Y hangup Padraig Brady
2002-09-21 18:13 ` jbradford
2002-09-23 8:32 ` Padraig Brady [this message]
2002-09-23 9:44 ` jbradford
2002-09-24 21:06 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-09-25 7:49 ` jbradford
2002-09-23 23:08 Peter
2002-09-25 14:58 ` Mark Lord
2002-09-25 15:06 ` Padraig Brady
2002-09-25 16:11 ` jbradford
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