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Date:      Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:19:21 +0100
From:      "army.of.root" <army.of.root@googlemail.com>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ata: printf on every spinup/spindown?
Message-ID:  <49BEB449.9090302@googlemail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49BE7C5A.2080103@icyb.net.ua>
References:  <49BE7C5A.2080103@icyb.net.ua>

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Andriy Gapon wrote:
> I am playing with ata spindown feature and I think that it is really unnecessary
> to print a message each time ata driver is going to spindown a disk or let it be
> spinned up:
> ad6: Idle, spin down
> ad6: request while spun down, starting.
> ad6: drive spun down.
> ad6: Idle, spin down
> ad6: request while spun down, starting.
> 
> Especially this is not useful when "Idle, spin down" messages are going spin up
> the disk via syslog logging to disk :-)
> 
> Maybe put these under verboseboot if not drop entirely?
> 

Hi,

yah, I had some unpleasant experience with spinning down disks. That really is 
only useful for backup disks or similar disks which are not accessed frequently 
or used by any programs.

:) The HDD consumes in Idle mode only something like 1W so it isnt really 
economic to spin it down.



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