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Date:      Thu, 5 Mar 2009 22:28:07 +0100
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
To:        Daniel Thiele <dthiele@gmx.net>
Cc:        octavian.covalschi@gmail.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off
Message-ID:  <20090305212807.GC19161@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <49B04281.2030406@gmx.net>
References:  <200903041938.n24Jcqdr060153@lurza.secnetix.de> <49AF1C1B.3050604@gmx.net> <49AF9381.50709@FreeBSD.org> <49B04281.2030406@gmx.net>

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* Daniel Thiele <dthiele@gmx.net> wrote:
> Looking at the numbers in the Hitachi drive specifications Tobias an I
> dug out from the Hitachi website (see replies in the Joerg Sonnenberger
> branch of this thread) the normal Load/Unload count is about 30 times
> higher than the Emergency Unload count. <snip>

Have you also looked at the definition of `emergency unload'? Maybe this
number doesn't actually refer to the number of unloads caused by power
loss, but because they detect a very high amount of vibration. But I'm
not a hard disk expert.

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/

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