On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 10:00 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote:
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No I definitely mean't "sdparm", it's available from RPMForge and it's different from "hdparm".
[stewart@##### ~]$ whatis sdparm sdparm (8) - access SCSI modes pages; read VPD pages; send simple SCSI commands sdparm (rpm) - List or change SCSI disk parameters [stewart@##### ~]$ whatis hdparm hdparm (8) - get/set hard disk parameters hdparm (rpm) - A utility for displaying and/or setting hard disk parameters.
[stewart@##### ~]$ sudo yum whatprovides "*/sdparm"
...
sdparm-1.03-1.el5.rf.x86_64 : List or change SCSI disk parameters Matched from: Filename : /usr/bin/sdparm
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[stewart@##### ~]$ sudo /usr/bin/sdparm -a /dev/sde Password: /dev/sde: Maxtor OneTouch 0125 Power condition mode page: IDLE 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] STANDBY 0 [cha: y, def: 1, sav: 0] ICT 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] SCT 4294967286 [cha: y, def:9000, sav:4294967286]
The 'STANDBY' condition is what were interested in.
I installed sdparm on 5.3 and got this.
# sdparm -a /dev/sdc /dev/sdc: Toshiba USB2.0 Drive R00 1.43 Read write error recovery mode page:
warning: mode page seems malformed
The page number field should be 0x01, but is 0x05; try '--flexible'
- lots of occurrences like that last line and a whole bunch of other stuff.
So I
# sdparm -a --flexible /dev/sdc /dev/sdc: Toshiba USB2.0 Drive R00 1.43 Read write error recovery mode page:
warning: mode page seems malformed
and it looks better. The lines of interest seem to be
Power condition - old version mode page:
warning: mode page seems malformed
The page number field should be 0x0d, but is 0x05 IDLE-OLD 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] STBY-OLD 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] ICT-OLD 272564736 [cha: y, def:272564736, sav:272564736] SCT-OLD 1073676288 [cha: y, def:1073676288, sav:1073676288] Power condition mode page:
warning: mode page seems malformed
The page number field should be 0x1a, but is 0x05 IDLE 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] STANDBY 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] ICT 272564736 [cha: y, def:272564736, sav:272564736] SCT 1073676288 [cha: y, def:1073676288, sav:1073676288]
The 4.7 results are quite similar.
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