Bug 275478 – sys-apps/hdparm: hdparm init.d started after hald causes spun down drives (-y) to start back up

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Wonko 2009-06-26 11:55:01 UTC]

The upgrade of sys-apps/hdparm from 9.12 to 9.15 removed the "after hald" line from depend(). This leads to the effect that my drives spin down  when hdparm is started, but immediately spin up again when hald is started. So, setting them to sleep via sda_args=-y in /etc/conf.d/hdparm has no effect.

Workarounds:
- Add "after hald" to depend() section /etc/init.d/hdparm.
- Put "hdparm -y /dev/sda" into /etc/conf.d/local.start. I'l leave it like this anyway, because specifying both -S and -y in /etc/conf.d/hdparm does not work.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. upgrade sys-apps/hdparm to 9.15
2. activate spin-down with "sda_args=-y" in /etc/conf.d/hdparm
3. reboot

Actual Results:  
Drive spins down and immediately spins up again.

Expected Results:  
The drives should spin down and stay down.

Portage 2.2_rc33 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.28-tuxonice-r3_2 i686)
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dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7                                                                                      
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4                                                                                       
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1                                                                                   
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CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"                                                                                       
CFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -mfpmath=sse -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"                                              
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"                                                                                        
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[Comment 1 SpanKY 2009-06-28 16:52:11 UTC]

hal isnt special in this regard ... i doubt it is the only package that will scan all disks

what you want to do is at odds from what most other people want to do -- hdparm is typically used to enable dma and related features on their disks, so they want it to run as soon as possible all the time

i think everyone would be better served if this kind of stuff was put into local.start.  perhaps updating the conf.d with this helpful note would work ?

[Comment 2 Wonko 2009-06-29 11:53:23 UTC]

Yes, this sounds good. My setup may be uncommon, yet I know others who do the same and might wonder why it does not work as before. A little note in conf.d/hdparm will lead them into the right direction. Thanks.

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2009-06-29 16:11:53 UTC]

sure, i didnt mean to make it sound like you were doing something wrong or weird.  there is certainly a place to spin down drives you know rarely get used.

hopefully this is clear enough:
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-apps/hdparm/files/hdparm-conf.d.3?r1=1.4&r2=1.5