Your message dated Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:47:53 +0000
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and subject line Bug#684241: fixed in hdparm 9.42-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #684241,
regarding hdparm: on battery, the drive spins down too often, even when standby
is off
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Package: hdparm
Version: 9.39-1+b1
Severity: important
Since quite recently, the hard drive of my laptop spins down too often
when on battery: about after 20 seconds - 30 seconds, then it usually
spins up again after a few seconds (sometimes less than 1 second). So,
these spin-downs are completely useless, make the system a bit slower
(when waiting for spin-up), and would probably lower the lifetime of
the drive.
I can see 2 solutions:
1. Detect this automatically. However it seems that the system cannot
do that.
2. Disable spindown via some option. This is what I did, but without
any effect!
I first tried putting "spindown_time = 0" in /etc/hdparm.conf, then
ran "/etc/init.d/hdparm restart" (not sure whether this is useful).
But the drive still spins down.
I've written a script to see the options:
#!/bin/sh
. /lib/hdparm/hdparm-functions
hdparm_options /dev/sda
and it outputs "-B254 -q -S0" when on AC power, and "-B127 -q -S0"
when on battery, as expected (from /lib/hdparm/hdparm-functions).
Then I ran directly:
# hdparm -B127 -S0 /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
setting Advanced Power Management level to 0x7f (127)
setting standby to 0 (off)
APM_level = 127
but the drive still spins down.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages hdparm depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-35
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian7
Versions of packages hdparm recommends:
ii powermgmt-base 1.31
Versions of packages hdparm suggests:
ii apmd 3.2.2-14
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/hdparm.conf changed:
quiet
spindown_time = 0
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: hdparm
Source-Version: 9.42-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
hdparm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Meskes <[email protected]> (supplier of updated hdparm package)
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Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:19:21 +0200
Source: hdparm
Binary: hdparm hdparm-dbg hdparm-udeb
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 9.42-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Stephen Gran <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Michael Meskes <[email protected]>
Description:
hdparm - tune hard disk parameters for high performance
hdparm-dbg - debug files for hdparm
hdparm-udeb - tune hard disk parameters for high performance (udeb)
Closes: 675624 684241
Changes:
hdparm (9.42-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* New upstream release
* Allow udev rule to process large numbers of devices (closes: #675624)
* Changed hdparm-functions to allow links instead of devices in hdparm.conf.
* Taken from Ubuntu:
Set spindown policy back to -B128 instead of -B127. Too many drives
misbehave too badly with this setting, possibly leading to drive failure.
We should revisit this once we understand why people's drives are spinning
back *up* so frequently (closes: #684241)
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