On Thursday 2008-04-10 17:01, Christian Pernegger wrote:This DOS nonsense does not work anywhere outside x86. I see people put *lots* of afterthought in their utilities, hardware even. WD is not the first to do this unload nonsense, I've noticed it with Toshiba before: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/15/413 Since then, I am dependent on the thkd[1] module and no hdparm is going to fix it; the module does a dumb read every now and then on one device, causing streaming performance to kink periodically, but it works at least at keeping the disk alive. (Reason it's in kernel: better to have even when userspace is not running.) Improvements welcome. [1] ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-jengelh/rawkernel/ somewhere in there since recently. --
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