Subject: Re: how to spin down a harddisk?
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/03/2000 21:47:24
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:11:29AM -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 08:30:02PM -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> >> I said "not exactly correct".  There's a "stop" equivalant, and you can
> >> use _anything_ as a start command (since by definition you wake up
> >> when you get any command).  If you want, you could call "identify"
> >> the start command :-)
> >
> >No, this doesn't work: "check power" or "identify" doesn't make the drive
> >spin up. Only a command requiring access to platter will.
> 
> Whoops, you're right.  My apologies (hm, maybe a reset would spin
> the drive up).

Yes, we can hope so. But better send a read or write then :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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