ata: printf on every spinup/spindown?
army.of.root
army.of.root at googlemail.com
Mon Mar 16 13:19:57 PDT 2009
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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