Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:19:21 +0100 From: "army.of.root" <army.of.root@googlemail.com> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ata: printf on every spinup/spindown? Message-ID: <49BEB449.9090302@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <49BE7C5A.2080103@icyb.net.ua> References: <49BE7C5A.2080103@icyb.net.ua>
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Andriy Gapon wrote: > I am playing with ata spindown feature and I think that it is really unnecessary > to print a message each time ata driver is going to spindown a disk or let it be > spinned up: > ad6: Idle, spin down > ad6: request while spun down, starting. > ad6: drive spun down. > ad6: Idle, spin down > ad6: request while spun down, starting. > > Especially this is not useful when "Idle, spin down" messages are going spin up > the disk via syslog logging to disk :-) > > Maybe put these under verboseboot if not drop entirely? > Hi, yah, I had some unpleasant experience with spinning down disks. That really is only useful for backup disks or similar disks which are not accessed frequently or used by any programs. :) The HDD consumes in Idle mode only something like 1W so it isnt really economic to spin it down.
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