--- Alejandro Bonilla <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > --- Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > On 7/7/05, Martin Knoblauch <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Interesting. Same Notebook, same drive. The program say "not
> > > parked"
> > > > :-( This is on FC2 with a pretty much vanilla 2.6.9 kernel.
> > > >
> > > > [root@l15833 tmp]# hdparm -i /dev/hda
> > > >
> > > > /dev/hda:
> > > >
> > > > Model=HTS726060M9AT00, FwRev=MH4OA6BA, SerialNo=MRH403M4GS88XB
> > >
> > > haji ~ # hdparm -i /dev/hda
> > >
> > > /dev/hda:
> > >
> > > Model=HTS726060M9AT00, FwRev=MH4OA6DA, SerialNo=MRH453M4H2A6PB
> >
> > OK, different FW levels. After upgrading my disk to MH40A6GA my
> head
> > parks :-) Minimum required level for this disk seems to be A6DA.
> Hope
> > this info is useful.
>
> Martin,
>
> Simply upgrading your firmware fixed your problem for being to park
> the
> head?
>
Yup. Do not forget that FW is very powerful. Likely the parking
feature was added after A6BA.
Basically I saw that the only difference between me and Pekka was the
FW (discounting the different CPU speed and Kernel version). I googled
around and found the IBM FW page at:
http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=ibm&lndocid=MIGR-41008
Download is simple, just don't use the "IBM Download Manager". Main
problem is that one needs a bootable floopy drive and "the other OS" to
create a bootable floppy. It would be great if IBM could provide floppy
images for use with "dd" for the poor Linux users.
Then I pondered over the risk involved with the update. Curiosity won
:-) And now the head parks. BUT - I definitely do not encourage anybody
to perform the procedure. Do at your own risk after thinking about the
possible consequences ...
Anyway someone reported a non working HTS548040M9AT00 with FW
revision MG2OA53A. The newest revision, from the same floppy image, is
A5HA.
Cheers
Martin
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Martin Knoblauch
email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de
www: http://www.knobisoft.de
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