Re: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

[Martin Knoblauch <knobi@knobisoft.de>]

--- Pekka Enberg <penberg@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/7/05, Martin Knoblauch <knobi@knobisoft.de> wrote:
> >  Interesting. Same Notebook, same drive. The program say "not
> parked"
> > :-( This is on FC2 with a pretty much vanilla 2.6.9 kernel.
> > 
> > [root@l15833 tmp]# hdparm -i /dev/hda
> > 
> > /dev/hda:
> > 
> >  Model=HTS726060M9AT00, FwRev=MH4OA6BA, SerialNo=MRH403M4GS88XB
> 
> haji ~ # hdparm -i /dev/hda
> 
> /dev/hda:
> 
>  Model=HTS726060M9AT00, FwRev=MH4OA6DA, SerialNo=MRH453M4H2A6PB

 OK, different FW levels. After upgrading my disk to MH40A6GA my head
parks :-) Minimum required level for this disk seems to be A6DA. Hope
this info is useful. 

[root@l15833 tmp]# hdparm -i /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

 Model=HTS726060M9AT00, FwRev=MH4OA6GA, SerialNo=MRH403M4GS88XB
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=7877kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=117210240
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
 DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
 AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a:

 * signifies the current active mode

[root@l15833 tmp]# ./park /dev/hda
head parked
[root@l15833 tmp]#


Cheers
Martin

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