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From: Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>
To: reiserfs@devlinux.com, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: (reiserfs) Re: sync: why disk cannot spin down
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 20:58:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000731205819.A28267@cerebro.laendle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000731184048.L2224@lxMA.mediaways.net>; from matthias.andree@gmx.de on Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 06:40:48PM +0200

On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 06:40:48PM +0200, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote:
> > messages from the kernel drawing for your attention and not putting the
> > drive to sleep.
> 
> The error message is natural, a drive put to sleep is put there
> permanently, since the drive is supposed to power down its interface

It still isn't an error, though, and linux could, if it were
better-than-neccessary, take this into account.

Linux doesn't bitch on spinned-down scsi disks at boot either, but
properly starts them.

> Since SCSI drives are only manually powered down, the Kernel is fine in
> this respect

"Fine" = "lacks any support". So just for me, that isn't fine. But it's
bearable ;)

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-07-31 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200007302237.XAA11816@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
     [not found] ` <3984B985.680B0ACF@baldauf.org>
2000-07-31 11:50   ` Xuan Baldauf
2000-07-31 14:05     ` Andre Hedrick
2000-07-31 14:18       ` Xuan Baldauf
2000-07-31 14:31         ` Matthias Andree
2000-07-31 14:47           ` Xuan Baldauf
2000-07-31 14:53             ` Matthias Andree
2000-07-31 15:07               ` Xuan Baldauf
2000-07-31 15:16                 ` Matthias Andree
2000-07-31 15:26                 ` Billy Harvey
2000-07-31 15:18               ` Marc Lehmann
2000-07-31 16:40                 ` Matthias Andree
2000-07-31 18:58                   ` Marc Lehmann [this message]
2000-07-31 14:15     ` Matthias Andree

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