Re: why is the kernel "unsleeping" a HDD put to sleep with hdparm -Y ?

2018-08-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 19:48:18 +1000 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > So I have a 'spare' internal spinning rust bucket which I only use > for backups, and so most of the time when I'm not using it I put it > to sleep with: > > sudo hdparm -Y /dev/sda > > Unfortunately the kernel wakes the drive up again

Re: why is the kernel "unsleeping" a HDD put to sleep with hdparm -Y ?

2018-08-27 Thread mick crane
On 2018-08-27 10:48, Zenaan Harkness wrote: So I have a 'spare' internal spinning rust bucket which I only use for backups, and so most of the time when I'm not using it I put it to sleep with: sudo hdparm -Y /dev/sda sorry cannot help but I have similar disk and this seems like a good idea.

Re: why is the kernel "unsleeping" a HDD put to sleep with hdparm -Y ?

2018-08-27 Thread Marc Auslander
Zenaan Harkness writes: >So I have a 'spare' internal spinning rust bucket which I only use >for backups, and so most of the time when I'm not using it I put it >to sleep with: > >sudo hdparm -Y /dev/sda > >Unfortunately the kernel wakes the drive up again: > >Aug 27 19:44:40 eye kernel: ata1.00:

Re: why is the kernel "unsleeping" a HDD put to sleep with hdparm -Y ?

2018-08-27 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 07:48:18PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > So I have a 'spare' internal spinning rust bucket which I only use > for backups, and so most of the time when I'm not using it I put it > to sleep with: > > sudo hdparm -Y /dev/sda > > Unfortunately the kernel wakes the drive up

why is the kernel "unsleeping" a HDD put to sleep with hdparm -Y ?

2018-08-27 Thread Zenaan Harkness
So I have a 'spare' internal spinning rust bucket which I only use for backups, and so most of the time when I'm not using it I put it to sleep with: sudo hdparm -Y /dev/sda Unfortunately the kernel wakes the drive up again: Aug 27 19:44:40 eye kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr