>however, the firmware update did not solve the 'head not park' >issue. :-( > >sudo ./park /dev/hda >head not parked 4c
Head parking while the system running is almost useless, since sooner or later, someone's going to write/read something. If you want head parking at shutdown, I suggest using hdparm -y. This puts the drive to sleep, which includes spindle spindown and, included, appropriate head parking. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
