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

[Holger Levsen]

severity 516968 normal
reassign 516968 linux-2.6
thanks

On Dienstag, 24. Februar 2009, Mark Poks wrote:
> 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


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