I'm writing code for an embedded system that has drive heat problems. I don't have control over the applications on the box, but I'm responsible for making sure that if the drive gets too hot, I spin it down and it stays down.
"hdparm -y /dev/xxx" works great for spinning down the drive, but it doesn't make things permanent. If any of the apps tries a read or a write, linux happily spins up the drive again. I can go muck around in the linux ATA driver and try to break whatever is re-activating the drive, but it would be much nicer if there were some standard interface for doing the same thing. Any suggestions? Thanks, Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
