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I found what I hope is the answer to this question in Diane Trout - FreeAgent Drives. I installed sdparm, and issued the command

sdparm –clear STANDBY -6 /dev/sdd

Now to wait an hour or so and try the disk again and see if I get any more errors.

This entry was posted by Paul Tomblin on November 1, 2007 at 13:47 GMT under Geekery, Revelation. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

5 Comments

  1. Stephen Harris says:

    I didn’t even see the original lazyweb question. It doesn’t show on my friends page, even though it does show if I look at your LJ directly.

    Odd!

    November 1, 2007, 15:01 GMT

  2. Ben A L Jemmett says:

    Stephen: interesting, it’s disappeared from my friends page too now even though I know it was certainly there earlier!

    Paul: you don’t half get some weird trackback spam; the one I spotted earlier led to a page of articles about muggings, murders, interviews with ladies who perform certain phone services, and a badly-written adult story with a title that’s also a Tom Waits lyric. I heartily approve!

    November 1, 2007, 19:45 GMT

  3. Paul Tomblin says:

    Yeah, it disappeared from my friend’s page after I edited it after entering this one. I think LiveJournal gets confused by the fact that I’m putting a GMT posting time on my posts (because stupid fucking PHP or Wordpress can’t figure out how to ask the OS whether it’s DST or not).

    As for the trackback spam - I thought I was pretty good about deleting the trackback spam. Is there still some on here?

    November 1, 2007, 19:52 GMT

  4. Ben A L Jemmett says:

    Nope, it’s gone as far as I can tell — it was on this entry, I guess I just caught it at an opportune moment during a dull teleconference this afternoon…

    November 1, 2007, 20:37 GMT

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