Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:11:46 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very slow writing to SATA disk Message-ID: <20051029111146.GA57024@photon.meadownet> In-Reply-To: <6F8F4C0A-1D7C-42FF-9CCB-C582827A5D2B@FreeBSD.ORG> References: <200510280518.j9S5I3oQ025430@blue.virtual-estates.net> <200510281803.15734.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <D64EDD7D-644E-4DCD-8B99-450403234A5D@FreeBSD.ORG> <200510281841.19751.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <6F8F4C0A-1D7C-42FF-9CCB-C582827A5D2B@FreeBSD.ORG>
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On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 01:00:36AM +0200, S?ren Schmidt wrote: > > On 29/10/2005, at 0:41, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > >>Look in smartmontools I provided patches for that, its not rocket > >>science you know... > >> > > > >This attitude -- on top of the API change itself -- is not really > >encouraging > >for ISVs, you know :-) > > Sigh, ataidle is a hack and the author had no intention to listen > back when, so I dont feel teribly sorry about it you know. Spinning > down disks needs to be done at the driver level so ATA knows what > state the disk is in etc... I'm the author of ataidle. I know it is a hack, and I agree that power management should be done at the driver level. However, I have released what worked for me in the hope that other people find it useful - but yes, there is always the possibility that data will be lost, since it does bypass the driver. Unfortunately I've been very busy recently and so have until now been unable to look at FreeBSD 6.0 and the new ATA driver. I have however updated ataidle to cope with the new API and it can be downloaded from http://www.cran.org.uk/bruce/software/ataidle-0.9.tar.gz . -- Bruce Cran
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