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Date:      Mon, 01 Apr 96 10:00:44 PST
From:      "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com>
To:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Changes to FreeBSD kernel to keep "green" drives on
Message-ID:  <9603018283.AA828378293@ccgate.infoworld.com>

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Here are the diffs to FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE that turn off the inactivity
timer. Turning on these flags will always be a good idea for desktop
systems with "green" hard drives, but the kernel still needs fixing to
handle systems in which an inactivity timeout is desirable (e.g. laptops).

--Brett

Changes to wd.c:

105a106,111
> #define WDOPT_NO_IDLE_0 0x0100 /* Flags added by Brett Glass to shut off */
> #define WDOPT_NO_IDLE_1 0x0200 /* inactivity timeout on some IDE drives, */
>                                /* such as ST5660A. On each interface, */
>                                /* 0x0100 and 0x0200 are for master and */
>                                /* slave, respectively. */
> 
229a236,237
> #define DKFL_NO_IDLE 0x00800 /* disk has had inactivity timer
>                                 turned off -BG */
443a452,453
>    if (du->dk_flags & DKFL_NO_IDLE)
>     printf(", inactivity timer disabled");
1610a1621,1633
>  }
> 
> /* If this drive should have its inactivity timer turned off, issue
>    the command to do it. If the command succeeds, then set a flag
>    in the disk's struct so we can report that it worked. -BG */
> 
>  du->dk_flags &= ~DKFL_NO_IDLE;  /* Assume command will fail */
> 
>  /* Shift WDOPT_NO_IDLE_0 left if unit 1 to get WDOPT_NO_IDLE_1*/
>  if (flags & (WDOPT_NO_IDLE_0 << (du->dk_unit))) { 
>   if (wdcommand(du, 0, 0, 0, 0, WDCC_IDLEMODE) == 0) {
>    du->dk_flags |= DKFL_NO_IDLE;
>   } 

Changes to wdreg.h:

99a100,102
> /* Following constant added by Brett Glass for the command that
>    disables/enables "green" mode on drives such as the Seagate ST5660A */
> #define WDCC_IDLEMODE 0xFB  /* configure active/idle mode -BG*/




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