Re: hdparm and Serial ATA

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is an hdparm variant for SCSI (SATA) if you search google, hdparm is 
for IDE disks primarily.


On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Peter_22@xxxxxx wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Can someone help me with this?
> suse:~ # hdparm -Y /dev/sdb
>
> /dev/sdb:
> issuing sleep command
> HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(sleep) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>
> Why can´t serial ata drives (wd3200js) be turned off or at least put in
> sleep mode with hdparm? Is it a lack of my kernel config or is hdparm the
> wrong command?
>
> Regards
> Peter
>
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