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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Can't put hard disk to sleep
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:47:45
Message-Id: gqb9r7$dfu$1@ger.gmane.org
1 Gentoo AMD64 here. Kernel 2.6.28-r4.
2
3 I'm trying to put a drive to sleep with:
4
5 hdparm -Y /dev/sdb
6
7 But it immediately wakes up again. dmesg:
8
9 --------
10 ata7.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
11 ata7.00: waking up from sleep
12 ata7: soft resetting link
13 ata7.00: configured for UDMA/100
14 ata7: EH complete
15 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 390721968 512-byte hardware sectors: (200 GB/186 GiB)
16 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
17 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
18 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
19 support DPO or FUA
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21
22 The drive has only one partition in it (NTFS). I don't need that drive
23 in Linux so I want it to sleep, but to no avail :P It's not mounted. I
24 can't see any reason why it would wake up again with an "exception
25 Emask" (whatever that is).