From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 5 04:33:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA13670 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 04:33:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from os.inf.tu-dresden.de (os.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.46]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA13624 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 04:33:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by os.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA27871 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 13:29:15 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA07720 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 07:52:04 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA10310; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 07:21:31 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 07:21:31 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scsi spindown References: <199703040001.KAA08579@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199703040001.KAA08579@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Mar 4, 1997 10:31:57 +1030 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > > > A lot of disks will refuse to spin down. > > > > So you won't get this feature for these old suckers, what's the deal? > > You will get lots of nasty error messages instead. Only if you're stupid enough to enable the spindown feature for them. :.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)