On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:15:16AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> What it writes is the above error to syslog. It doesn't matter which time

No, this error is triggered by a write, so before syslog has anything to
write to the disk.

> intercal I choose, it'll always spin down, and ~immediately spin up again.
> Given that we intentionally spin the drive down, couldn't we just inhibit
> the above errors?

It's hard, because the drive spins down by itself and the driver doesn't
know it's down. Also, on my desktop spinning down the drive doesn't 
lead to any error.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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