Re: [Bltk-discussion] hdparm -C on SATA always prints "standby"

[Mark L. <li...@rt...>]

> hdparm -C seems to work on the PATA laptops I have,
> but it always returns standby on the SATA laptops I have.
> 
> Is this a known issue?

Yes, due to incomplete implemetation of the HDIO_* ioctls in libata.
Somebody else posted a patch here recently to fix it.
I don't know if Jeff picked it up or not.

Cheers