From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 23:56:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA05686 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 23:56:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.scancall.no (www.scancall.no [195.139.183.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA05667 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 23:56:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no) Received: from super2.langesund.scancall.no [195.139.183.29] by www with smtp id IXUDARUK; Thu, 08 Oct 98 06:56:09 GMT (PowerWeb version 4.04r6) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981008085114.0091f220@mail.scancall.no> X-Sender: Marius@mail.scancall.no X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 08:51:14 +0200 To: Kevin Day From: Marius Bendiksen Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810071529.KAA02281@home.dragondata.com> References: <199810071347.GAA03046@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Depending on if your delays between seeks are enough time for the drive to >spin down or not are a big factor. (spin down/spin up/seek/read is nasty) How much work would it take to tweak the CDROM driver to wait 5-15 minutes (or, perhaps add an option somewhere, to make it dynamically configurable) before spinning down? I think that would solve some of the problem. Of course, you'd probably need cooling if you're going to have a 32x at full spin all the time. --- Marius Bendiksen, IT-Trainee, ScanCall AS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message