On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 08:05:47AM -0700, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > This timeout should already be enouth (it's something like 10s).
> > Also, it looks strange that the disk spins up just after spinning down.
> > Looks like it went off in the middle of a command.
> 
> I don't really think that 10s is a sufficient timeout for a disk.  Maybe
> for IDE, but some SCSI disks can take 30s or more to spin up.  ISTR that
> when I was dealing with fibre-channel disks they took the better part of a
> minute to spin up.  10s is cutting it pretty close for spinups even on
> some of the faster disks.

Hum more than 10s would make power management on laptop almost unusable :)

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