Re: hdparm -C always give drive state is standby (was: Kernel panicwith 2.6.15-rc7 + libata1 patch)

[Ralf Müller]

Mark Lord schrieb:
> Ralf Müller wrote:
> > A further problem is that calling "hdparm -C" _always_ give "drive 
> > state is:  standby" - even when the disks are clearly active. Maybe 
> > this indicates something to you.
>
>
> MMmm.. yes, it does that here, too.
> This is probably a bug somewhere in the libata passthru code,
> or in the HDIO_* translation code.

If I'm right that this should be handled in "ata_cmd_ioctl()" then there 
 is no copy_to_user() at all for WIN_CHECKPOWERMODE[12] - so there is 
no chance to get data back. Are there any known plans to fix this?

Ralf

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