On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 08:22:27AM -0700, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
> Then maybe the disk driver should keep track of how long the disk has been
> idle and always send the start/stop unit command if it's been idle more
> than a specific amount of time.

The driver can't really know how long the disk has been idle because the
power management is done *inside the disk*.
And there's no start/stop command for IDE disks.

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