From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu) by vger.rutgers.edu via listexpand id ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:49:47 -0400 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:39:04 -0400 Received: from p3EE0A3D8.dip.t-dialin.net ([62.224.163.216]:62534 "EHLO cerebro") by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:38:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 20:58:19 +0200 From: Marc Lehmann To: reiserfs@devlinux.com, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: (reiserfs) Re: sync: why disk cannot spin down Message-ID: <20000731205819.A28267@cerebro.laendle> References: <39858A9F.C272E4E8@baldauf.org> <20000731163127.G2224@lxMA.mediaways.net> <3985919F.3ADB81AD@baldauf.org> <20000731165300.I2224@lxMA.mediaways.net> <20000731171858.J2243@cerebro.laendle> <20000731184048.L2224@lxMA.mediaways.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.1i In-Reply-To: <20000731184048.L2224@lxMA.mediaways.net>; from matthias.andree@gmx.de on Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 06:40:48PM +0200 X-Operating-System: Linux version 2.2.16 (root@cerebro) (gcc driver version pgcc-2.95.2 19991024 (release) executing gcc version 2.7.2.3) Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 06:40:48PM +0200, Matthias Andree 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 ;) -- -----==- | ----==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / pcg@opengroup.org |e| -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/