On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 10:00 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote:
> <snip>
> 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.
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.
> <snip sig stuff>
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Bill