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.

Correction on that.  Jeff has indeed picked up the fix,
as of his "pull" request on Ocober 11:

>Eran Tromer:
>      libata: return sense data in HDIO_DRIVE_CMD ioctl

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