[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#516968: base: SATA drive is resumed at boot, even if not used

[Mark Poks]

Package: base
Severity: important

i have extra SATA disk which i use rarely. so to reduce some power consumption
and noise - i put the disk to 'start in sleep state'. i've done it with
hdparam -s /dev/sdX. obviously i have removed all links in fstab to that drive.
to prevent any auto mount.

motor of the disk is no longer starting when bios is booting-up the
machine, but unfortunetly it does when system starts INIT section (after initrd
finishes it's job).

i cannot discover what exactly makes disk to start it's motor but it's possibly
sata_nv driver - motor begins to work near logs from this driver.

i would like to start my extra disks on demand - when they are needed, but as
for now i can't do that.

Mark

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash