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From: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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To: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com>
Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Changes to FreeBSD kernel to keep "green" drives on
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> My laptop has always beed set up to timeout the drive after 30 secons..
> the system has been coping wth this successfully since 386BSD0.1 (1992).
> the drive takes about 1.5 seconds to spin-up...
> the standard timeoutes in the driver seem to cope.. 

Apparently, it depends on just how long the drive takes to come up to
speed. It takes less power if it can ramp up more slowly, so the "greenest"
drives will have the worst problems.

--Brett