on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:08:22PM -0800, Heather (star@starshine.org) wrote: > > > Or try fiddling with hdparm parameters. > > Hmmm... Pointers? Haven't tried that yet. > > (while it is "being normal" to you, try this and see if it works - if it > does, then try slipping its respective halves into the apm event.d sequence) > > Try using hdparm to order the CD to completely shutdown/stop spinning. > Then use hdparm to order it to spin back up again. > > (I don't have the device at hand, but -y says to tell it "suspend" and I bet > it's going -Y "sleep" which would need some sort of reset to recover. I'm not > sure how to get an IDE chain to issue a reset on demand.) > > "fiddling" with parameters might be because some IDE option (that perhaps > there is a flag for) is "allergic" to the sleep/wake sequence, or just plain > ol' flaky. > > Anyways if you can manage to reproduce the flakiness and a recovery using a > bit of scientific experiment with hdparm, then you win. I'm beginning to think it's a connection problem. No fiddling with anything (though I did install hdparm and am trying to figure out how to use it -- maybe the CDR got scared straight), no problems in the past 24 hours. Need to try an APM sleep.... -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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