Description of problem: hdparm doesn't report the value of Advanced power management level correctly. Instead it says "unknown setting" with a value of (0x8080). This messes up retrieving the value to save before suspending and restoring after resuming. See Bug #382061. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 7.7-1.fc8 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. hdparm -I /dev/sda Actual results: # hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep "Advanced power management level" Advanced power management level: unknown setting (0x8080) Expected results: The actual power management value, not "unknown setting" Additional info: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 # lshal ... system.product = '6465CTO ThinkPad T61' (string) ... udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_SATA_ST9160823AS_5NK0D5J0' block.device = '/dev/sda' (string) block.is_volume = false (bool) block.major = 8 (0x8) (int) block.minor = 0 (0x0) (int) block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_SATA_ST9160823AS_5NK0D5J0' (string) info.capabilities = {'storage', 'block'} (string list) info.category = 'storage' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2829_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0' (string) info.product = 'ST9160823AS' (string) Smolt profile: http://smolts.org/show?UUID=69030fb4-6a8c-4485-94fc-78ec19b2c72b+
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Hello, this seems to be fixed in current F10 rawhide (hdparm-8.6-1.fc9.x86_64): [root@pok etc]# hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting Advanced Power Management level to disabled [root@pok etc]# hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep "Advanced power management level" Advanced power management level: disabled [root@pok etc]# hdparm -B 128 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting Advanced Power Management level to 0x80 (128) [root@pok etc]# hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep "Advanced power management level" Advanced power management level: 128 [root@pok etc]# hdparm -B 192 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xc0 (192) [root@pok etc]# hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep "Advanced power management level" Advanced power management level: 192 So I think that this can be closed.
As the original reporter, re-confirming fixed in F10, hdparm-8.6-1.fc9.x86_64, Lenovo T61.