bad print in hdparm.c
Alessandro Rubini
rubini-list at gnudd.com
Wed May 20 13:58:26 UTC 2009
I said:
>> If needed a comment like:
>>
>> /* standby counts 5-second intervals */
>>
>> would help better than changing the code.
Actually, the comment is already there, didn't notice it.
Walter Harms:
> mmmh that would mean we need to multiply by 5 first to get [s] and then
> do a standby / 60, standby % 60 ;
> IMHO that would be better readable. Is this documented somewhere ?
> or do drives vary on that any way ?
I think it's "standard", for some meaning of the word. "man hdparm" on
my debian system spits out this:
[...] The encoding of the timeout value is somewhat
peculiar. A value of zero means "timeouts are disabled": the
device will not automatically enter standby mode. Values from 1
to 240 specify multiples of 5 seconds, yielding timeouts from 5
seconds to 20 minutes. Values from 241 to 251 specify from 1 to
11 units of 30 minutes, yielding timeouts from 30 minutes to 5.5
hours. A value of 252 signifies a timeout of 21 minutes. A
value of 253 sets a vendor-defined timeout period between 8 and
12 hours, and the value 254 is reserved. 255 is interpreted as
21 minutes plus 15 seconds. Note that some older drives may
have very different interpretations of these values.
/alessandro
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