-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Jens Axboe wrote: > 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. Fully agreed, and that's the approach the IBM Windows driver seems to take - you just hear the disk park its head when the sensor kicks in (you can hear it) - the disk does not spin down when this happens. Could this be some reserved ATA command that only works with certain# drives? Bye, LenZ - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer <[email protected]> -o) [ICQ: 160767607 | Jabber: [email protected]] /\\ http://www.lenzg.org/ V_V -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCyRBySVDhKrJykfIRAkM+AJ9UDbO8JU48UcEgVE2Kf35X1f4PjgCfaNPx xEHnSU5BagtmC02nwGx66F4= =BDfq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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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