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Date:      Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:00:27 +0200
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "James R. Van Artsdalen" <james-freebsd-current@jrv.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Pack of CAM improvements
Message-ID:  <4B69817B.8090706@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B570B4C.9000203@jrv.org>
References:  <4B55D9D4.1000008@FreeBSD.org> <823F6536-32A7-4BC6-9C6A-C84865A38458@samsco.org> <4B570B4C.9000203@jrv.org>

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James R. Van Artsdalen wrote:
> At some point I hope to add support for staggered spin-ups, perhaps a
> loader.conf setting for people with more than 20-30 disks.  At the
> 100-120 disk level it seems unlikely that any reasonable fixed delay
> would be reasonable.

I've just added Power Up In Stand-by (PUIS) feature support into CAM ATA
in HEAD. It is one of the ways to implement staggered spin-up for ATA
devices. Now CAM will spin-up no more then 4 of such devices at a time.
Another way, based on SATA hard-reset sequence, is more complicated
(especially when port multipliers used) and not supported yet.

-- 
Alexander Motin



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