Hard disk power management

[Gilles Dartiguelongue]

Le lundi 18 décembre 2006 à 21:11 -0800, Dan Nicholson a écrit :
> On 12/17/06, kitts <kitts.mailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 17 December 2006 16:47 IST, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > [1]
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2005-August/003116.html
> >
> > I went through that mail and from it i seem to learn that hdparm
only works
> > with IDE drives. I have a SATA drive in my laptop. Could that be the
issue?
> >
[snip]
> I think you need to use sdparm, which speaks SCSI.
> 
> http://sg.torque.net/sg/sdparm.html
> 

IIRC, sdparm is for pure SCSI devices and hdparm can handle SATA drives
because it is still IDE commands that are sent to the device.
-- 
Gilles Dartiguelongue <dartigug at esiee.fr>