Good time of the day. I want to install an utility for disturbing (writing a byte every N seconds in order to stop it move its head to a landing zone) a mounted HDD until it is unmounted because I have the one of those well known green models from WD that lands its head every 8 seconds, AFAIK. Because the disc works as external drive and it is impossible for now to connect it directly to SATA interface, I want to bring about the trick w/ the back grounded process (accomplishing it w/ watch and echo a byte to the drive) until it is killed on un-mounting the drive (but how I can find out what is the PID (being ran from a bash script)?
Before, I tried w/ another drive, another manufacturer that was connected directly to SATA controller and hdparm did not work for it - only the trick helped greatly. As for the drives power management, as I understand it - there is poor support for working/managing in linux yet, additional movements are required as to make a DOS floppy or whatever - not directly running from the distro... Thanks for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e0d1cf9.90d1e30a.7e72.ffffa...@mx.google.com
