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.
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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!
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!
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?
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…