Date: Wed, 03 Apr 96 12:17:46 PST From: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: ejs@bfd.com, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hacked kernel with option to disable "green" mode Message-ID: <9603038285.AA828559519@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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> And you can't add the code by default because it's specific to a > single hardware manufacturer, It is now. But it's trivial to make the code issue the command only for drives the comand works on. And to make it adapt to any new drive on which we know how to disable spindowns. Also, there's extra protection because the user has to turn on the config flag intentionally. So I think we're OK here. So we can add it with confidence. --Brett
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