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From: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, bde@zeta.org.au
Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Hacked kernel with option to disable "green" mode
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> It should be a standalone command using the wdcontrol()
> interface

This would prevent any user with a disk like the ST5660A from being able to
install FreeBSD. Inactivity timeouts need to be turned off early, before
the drive can spin down. A kernel config option can do this, but a user
command might be executed too late (and wouldn't be executed during an
install).

--Brett