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From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:41:14 +0000
Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrote:

> personally i still think something like the attached patch would be
> nice to have. there's a chance users might type the following:
> 
> 'atacontrol spindown device 10'
> 
> thinking the timeout value is measured in minutes. 

I agree - users coming from ataidle(8) will expect the timeout to be in
minutes too.

-- 
Bruce Cran