Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Hadess wrote: > > > - Lost interrupts on hard-drive (when battery is running out, or I'm > > > closing the lid of the laptop) > > > Oct 26 10:18:23 hiro kernel: ide0: reset: success > > > Oct 26 10:18:51 hiro kernel: hda: lost interrupt > > > > Frequently it doesn't manage a successful ide reset, and hence the hard > > disk never powers up. The reason is that when the lid shuts, pmud puts the > > HD into sleep mode. But it doesn't wake it up upon reopen. > > What machine, and what hdparm command is used in the prwctl script? (My > Lombard only spits these error messages if I force the disk to completely > power off. After the second IDE reset, all is fine again). Maybe the disk > only knows powerdown mode. > > > Either disable pmud or don't close it ;) > > Or get a disk that supports standby mode ... > > Michael It's an iBook Firewire, the hdparm is the default one from the unstable pmud (0.6) This for sleep on Core99 machines. hdparm -f -S 1 -Y /dev/hda
I think this kind of error already showed on this list, not long ago, but it was on another kind of machine (a beige G3, if my memory serves right) I thought it could be the same problem, and that it had already been fixed. Cheers -- /Hadess http://hadess.net http://idorulabs.free.fr - Debian/PPC Gnome packages
