Re: [powersave-devel] Enabling acoustic and power management for SATA disks

2006-02-27 Thread Michael Biebl
I collected some more information on this topic. http://linux-ata.org/sata-status.html This seems to be the preferred method nowadays to access SATA disks. Support for PM and AM is already available for many chipsets. There is also a small tool to control the settings for SATA/SCSI and even IDE d

Re: [powersave-devel] Enabling acoustic and power management for SATA disks

2006-02-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Stefan Seyfried wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:40:07AM +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 01:23:25AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> this is a followup to [1]. As it seems powersaved does not call hdparm >>> on SATA disks. exec_hdparm() in >>> /usr/lib/powersa

Re: [powersave-devel] Enabling acoustic and power management for SATA disks

2006-02-26 Thread Stefan Seyfried
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:40:07AM +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 01:23:25AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Hi, > > > > this is a followup to [1]. As it seems powersaved does not call hdparm > > on SATA disks. exec_hdparm() in > > /usr/lib/powersave/scripts/set_disk_setti

Re: [powersave-devel] Enabling acoustic and power management for SATA disks

2006-02-26 Thread Stefan Seyfried
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 01:23:25AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Hi, > > this is a followup to [1]. As it seems powersaved does not call hdparm > on SATA disks. exec_hdparm() in > /usr/lib/powersave/scripts/set_disk_settings only handles ide bus type > hard disks. As SATA disks will appear as scsi

[powersave-devel] Enabling acoustic and power management for SATA disks

2006-02-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi, this is a followup to [1]. As it seems powersaved does not call hdparm on SATA disks. exec_hdparm() in /usr/lib/powersave/scripts/set_disk_settings only handles ide bus type hard disks. As SATA disks will appear as scsi disks they will be skipped here. Maybe it would be a good idea to add supp