Re: [MLUG] [Fwd: New Seagate Drives Have Real Difficulties With Linux]

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Daniel Nowlin wrote:

> a chocolate teapot.' Via Engadget, though, there is a solution!
> http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/197506725/article.pl

Apparently it works fine as eSATA but fails only with USB2, and that 
problem can be fixed...

It took a few minutes to dig this up by following links, but people are 
saying that this solution works (I had to extract the text from the HTML 
because newegg wrapped it up badly):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16822148235&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&SelectedRating=-1&PurchaseMark=&Page=7

bbobbo
solution for linux spindown

Other Thoughts: for the user who is using the drive on linux who couldn't 
find a solution for the spindown problem, here is the solution:

make sure you have the sdparm package installed. as root, do :

# sdparm -al /dev/sdd
    /dev/sdd: Seagate   FreeAgentDesktop  100D
    Direct access device specific parameters: WP=0  DPOFUA=0
Power condition [po] mode page:
  IDLE        0  [cha: n, def:  0, sav:  0]  Idle timer active
  STANDBY     1  [cha: y, def:  1, sav:  1]  Standby timer active
  ICT         0  [cha: n, def:  0, sav:  0]  Idle condition timer (100 ms)
  SCT       9000  [cha: y, def:9000, sav:9000]  Standby condition timer (100 ms)

# sdparm --clear STANDBY -6 /dev/sdd
    /dev/sdd: Seagate   FreeAgentDesktop  100D

# sdparm -al /dev/sdd
    /dev/sdd: Seagate   FreeAgentDesktop  100D
    Direct access device specific parameters: WP=0  DPOFUA=0
Power condition [po] mode page:
  IDLE        0  [cha: n, def:  0, sav:  0]  Idle timer active
  STANDBY     0  [cha: n, def:  1, sav

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