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Date:      Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:10:29 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Christian Gusenbauer <c47g@gmx.at>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Subject:   Re: SATA disk disappears
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301121109550.8299@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301121102100.8299@wonkity.com>
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Warren Block wrote:

> Hmm.  The green drives are supposed to go to sleep for power saving, and then 
> there's a multiple-second delay when they have to spin back up on access. 
> That should not be a problem for gmirror, but maybe it is. sysutils/ataidle 
> can turn on the spindown.  Some drives do not accept that command, or claim 
> to accept it but ignore it.  Worth a try, though.

Make that: sysutils/ataidle can turn *off* the spindown.



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