On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 15:09, Debian Bug Tracking System < ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the linux-2.6 package: > > #516968: base: SATA drive is resumed at boot, even if not used > > It has been closed by maximilian attems <m...@stro.at>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact maximilian attems < > m...@stro.at> by > replying to this email. > > > -- > 516968: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516968 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: maximilian attems <m...@stro.at> > To: 516968-d...@bugs.debian.org > Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 14:55:38 +0100 > Subject: Re: SATA drive usage > just add your small hdparam snipped in /etc/rc.local > > anyway not a kernel bug, but just a userspace policy, > thus closing. > > /etc/rc.local is executed AFTER kernel spins-up the disk. i don't want to put disk to sleep every boot. it is already in 'start in sleep mode' but someway kernel spins-up the disk even if it is not to be mounted. this is kernel thing i think so, or sata_nv kernel module. normally, all disks are spinned-up in BIOS's post stage. but when disk has set option 'start in sleep mode' post stage skips the disk. the same kernel should do. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mark Poks <markp...@wp.pl> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> > Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:17:00 +0100 > Subject: base: SATA drive is resumed at boot, even if not used > Package: base > Severity: important > > i have extra SATA disk which i use rarely. so to reduce some power > consumption > and noise - i put the disk to 'start in sleep state'. i've done it with > hdparam -s /dev/sdX. obviously i have removed all links in fstab to that > drive. > to prevent any auto mount. > > motor of the disk is no longer starting when bios is booting-up the > machine, but unfortunetly it does when system starts INIT section (after > initrd > finishes it's job). > > i cannot discover what exactly makes disk to start it's motor but it's > possibly > sata_nv driver - motor begins to work near logs from this driver. > > i would like to start my extra disks on demand - when they are needed, but > as > for now i can't do that. > > Mark > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 5.0 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > > >
