Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 23:43:43 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spinning down the drive Message-ID: <20000606234343.A68786@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <20000606161140.A8303@dophnic.yi.org>; from moeller@dophnic.yi.org on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 04:11:40PM -0500 References: <20000606161140.A8303@dophnic.yi.org>
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According to Derek Moeller: > Is this possible? Are there significant hard drive power gains if it's spun > down in a laptop? Considering that you have a sync(2) every 30s (w/o softupdates) and even more of them with softupdates, I don't see what you'd gain. I'd say it takes more power to restart the drive every N seconds than letting it spin. I may be wrong but I don't see it useful. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 5.0-CURRENT #80: Sun Jun 4 22:44:19 CEST 2000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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