Re: IDE freeze for seconds
Mark Lord (mlord@pobox.com)
Fri, 04 Dec 1998 15:20:28 +0000
Johnny Teveßen wrote:
>
> Quoting Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz):
>
> > Get bdflush-1.6 from sunsite, there's way to postpone writes until
> > disk is spinned up again. I believe this is what you want.
>
> That's interesting. I was told that there's no way to find out whether
> an IDE drive is spinning or not. At least not without spinning it up.
There is no guaranteed way, but most newer drives
should now support "hdparm -C"
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mlord@pobox.com
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