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Hi,
Jens Axboe wrote:
> It isn't too pretty to rely on such unreliable timing anyways. I'm
> not too crazy about spinning the disk down either, it's useless wear
> compared to just parking the head.
Fully agreed, and that's the approach the IBM Windows driver seems to
take - you just hear the disk park its head when the sensor kicks in
(you can hear it) - the disk does not spin down when this happens.
Could this be some reserved ATA command that only works with certain#
drives?
Bye,
LenZ
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