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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hardware@freebsd.org
From: Michael Knoll <knollm@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
Subject: Re: Harddrive powerdowns 
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>Only if the drive takes longer to spin up than the FreeBSD driver is 
>willing to wait.  In your case, it looks like it'll be OK.

Isn't a timeout when the system is tired of waiting?  Will it retry and
timeout again?  How long is FreeBSD willing to wait?


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