From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 8 12:06:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25181 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:06:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25139 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:06:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18921; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:05:48 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd018826; Thu Oct 8 12:05:40 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA26707; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:05:24 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810081905.MAA26707@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 19:05:24 +0000 (GMT) Cc: Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no, toasty@home.dragondata.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810080808.BAA02150@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Oct 8, 98 01:08:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It's determined by the drive, not the driver. None of our drivers > spin the CDROM down intentionally. > > Many drives don't offer any standard way of disabling the spindown; > you're basically stuck with it. I thought you could avoid spindown by reading the thing... >^). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message