Hi, Jens.
Jens Axboe wrote:
On Wed, May 31 2006, Robert Hancock wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
The trade-off is that if I have a 15k rpm SCSI drive, it would take a
lot of design changes to make it spin up quickly, and improve a function
which is usually done on a server once every MTBF when replacing the
failed unit.
I think the majority of very large or very fast drives are in systems
which don't (deliberately) power cycles often, in rooms where heat is an
issue. And to spin up quickly take a larger power supply... 30 sec is
fine with most users.
Couldn't find a spin-up time for the new Seagate 750GB drive, but the
seek sure is fast!
I wouldn't guess that even a 15K drive would take nearly that long. For
boot time on servers it doesn't matter much though, disk spinup time is
I do use a 15K rpm drive in my workstation (hello git!), and the spin up
really isn't that bad. Less than 10 seconds for the actual spin up, I
would say.
Can you measure spin up time for your 15k's? Some controllers can't
catch the first D2H FIS after POR and have to wait unconditionally for
spin up for hotplug & resuming from suspend. Currently 8 sec wait is
used but it seems insufficient for your drives. Failing to spinup in
that 8 secs would probably result in timeout of the first reset attempt
and retrial - which currently takes > 30 secs.
Spin-up time can be measured by first issuing STANDBY and then time how
long IDLE IMMEDIATE takes, I think.
Thanks.
--
tejun
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