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From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
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Subject: Re: hdparm -Y hangup
To: padraig.brady@corvil.com (Padraig Brady)
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 19:13:14 +0100 (BST)
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> 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.

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.

So, unless you, I, or Mark Lord fixes it, it stays broken :-).

John.