Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 06:32:40 +0000 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com> Cc: Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com (Brett Glass), freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Changes to FreeBSD kernel to keep "green" drives on Message-ID: <1574.828426760@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Apr 1996 10:21:49 PST." <199604011821.KAA04704@ref.tfs.com>
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> I know phk has been looking at spin-up optimisatiosn.. > (e.g. if a drive takes more than a set time to come ready, assumen it was > spinning up and schedule a 'sync' to catch it while it's already going.. Actually The thing I did was an utterly disgusting hack "sleep-hack" that assumes that if the disk went to sleep, it will wake up with a different geometry. (workaround for a BIOS-bug). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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