Parking disk drive heads

[Matthew N. Dodd]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 m.ehinger at ltur.de wrote:
> Is there a way to lock the drive in that state for some seconds?

Not currently.

It looks like the ATA driver will need to be extended to allow devices to 
be "frozen" and to expose a mechanism for submitting immediate commands, 
similar to how ATA_STALL_QUEUE works.

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