On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > Yeah, that likely needs a little help from the ide driver. If you force > > a spindown, you will effectively have parked the head for as long as the > > spindown + spinup takes. That could turn out to be enough, it will take > > more than 1-2 seconds anyways. > > I doubt it; laptop disks seem to be optimized for spinning up/down fast > (for powersaving reasons) so while for normal disks I'd agree with you, > for laptop disks I'm far less sure. It isn't too pretty to rely on such unreliable timing anyways. I'm not too crazy about spinning the disk down either, it's useless wear compared to just parking the head. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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