on 2010-06-01 at 01:23 Paul Hartman wrote: >I have 2TB samsung drives which, by default, park heads very quickly. >Using hdparm I changed power saving mode from "off" (which parks after >a minute) to "254" and now the heads never park.
i have a drive similar to the OP (WD10EADS) and the problem is this: acme7 ~ # hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254) HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Input/output error
