Re: IDE freeze for seconds

Roeland Th. Jansen (roel@grobbebol.xs4all.nl)
Sun, 29 Nov 1998 23:57:27 +0000


On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 04:40:10PM +0100, Johnny Tevessen wrote:
> So even the other one (master/slave) is blocked? Sorry, but
> this is really *bad*. One of my disks (a ~730MB Quantum)
> needs almost 8 seconds to spin up. It is configured as slave,
> and if the master (a faster Seagate) would have to wait this
> time, it would be a serious drawback,

the best thing is to disable spindown, especially if you like to keep your
disks a bit longer....

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