Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:40:03 GMT From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/133593: [ata] `atacontrol spindown` won't affect disk until some data is read from it Message-ID: <200904111240.n3BCe3YB025352@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/133593; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/133593: [ata] `atacontrol spindown` won't affect disk until some data is read from it Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:36:31 +0400 * Bruce Cran (bruce@cran.org.uk) wrote: > This is documented as the way the spindown command works. From > atacontrol(8): > > spindown Set or report timeout after which the device will be spun > down. To arm the timeout the device needs at least one more request > after setting the timeout. To disable spindown, set the time- out to > zero. No further actions are needed in this case. Oh, thanks, didn't notice that. Then maybe it's possible to make atacontrol make some dummy request after the timeout is set? -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amdmi3@amdmi3.ru ..: jabber: amdmi3@jabber.ru http://www.amdmi3.ru
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