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Date:      Thu, 8 Oct 1998 19:05:24 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Cc:        Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no, toasty@home.dragondata.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CDROM as system disk
Message-ID:  <199810081905.MAA26707@usr08.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810080808.BAA02150@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Oct 8, 98 01:08:46 am

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> It's determined by the drive, not the driver.  None of our drivers 
> spin the CDROM down intentionally.
> 
> Many drives don't offer any standard way of disabling the spindown; 
> you're basically stuck with it.

I thought you could avoid spindown by reading the thing...  >^).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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