Quoting Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca>: > On Tuesday 22 September 2009 18:59, William L. Maltby wrote: > >> On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 22:16 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote: > >> > What does 'sdparm -a /dev/sdc' yield? And what make/model is the >> > disk? >> >> On 5.3 # sdparm -a /dev/sdc >> -bash: sdparm: command not found > > He meant "hdparm", I think. > > -- > Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca> > "Yves Bellefeuille: Eterna malvenkanto en UEA" -- Heroldo Komunikas, > n-ro 389 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 ... [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.