From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 21 12:30:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09618 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 12:30:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (firewall-user@alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA09507 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 12:29:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <52135(4)>; Thu, 21 May 1998 12:29:53 PDT Received: from gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (gnu [13.231.133.90]) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA12019; Thu, 21 May 1998 15:28:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gnu (localhost) by gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/client-1.3) id AA18880; Thu, 21 May 98 15:28:47 EDT Message-Id: <9805211928.AA18880@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Graham C.H.K. Gill" Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Syjet timeout & booting 2:sd(0,a)/kernel In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 May 1998 22:20:16 PDT." <199805210924.FAA12293@smtp.interlog.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 12:28:47 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hmmm... When my IDE drives spin down, it could take a good while to come up and I didn't see a problem... I suppose you could write a cheesy script which: while true do touch a file on the file system sleep a while done to prevent it from spinning down. (this may be a vague approximation of what you need to do to get through the buffer cache to the physical media). -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com The Feynman problem solving Algorithm 1) Write down the problem 2) Think real hard 3) Write down the answer Murray Gell-mann in the NY Times To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message