Date: Mon, 01 Apr 96 12:50:46 PST From: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com> To: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Changes to FreeBSD kernel to keep "green" drives on Message-ID: <9603018283.AA828389720@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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> My laptop has always beed set up to timeout the drive after 30 secons.. > the system has been coping wth this successfully since 386BSD0.1 (1992). > the drive takes about 1.5 seconds to spin-up... > the standard timeoutes in the driver seem to cope.. Apparently, it depends on just how long the drive takes to come up to speed. It takes less power if it can ramp up more slowly, so the "greenest" drives will have the worst problems. --Brett
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