Re: IDE freeze for seconds

Roeland Th. Jansen (roel@grobbebol.xs4all.nl)
Tue, 1 Dec 1998 20:04:00 +0000


On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 08:08:29PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > needs almost 8 seconds to spin up. It is configured as slave,
> > > and if the master (a faster Seagate) would have to wait this
> > > time, it would be a serious drawback,
> >
> > the best thing is to disable spindown, especially if you like to keep your
> > disks a bit longer....
>
> Which do you want to keep longer, your disks or your planet ?

now *that* is another story.

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