Alexander Best <arun...@freebsd.org> writes: > since there seems no way to distinguish between these two states in ATA(4) > it's > probably better to leave it as it is, since doing spin downs upon reboot might > be even worse than not doing spindowns upon shutdown.
No. Where did you get that idea? To repeat what I've said before - several times - in this thread, a modern disk drive can handle hundreds of thousands of controlled unloads but only a few hundred emergency unloads. Given the choice between "never spin down" and "always spin down", the safe alternative is "always spin down". DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
