Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

[Soren Schmidt]

It seems Dave J. Boers wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 08:44:42PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> > There is no way to see if the disk was in suspend mode, you can
> > give it a command and se how long it takes before it comes back :)
> > 
> > The problem here is that it takes the command and OK's it, but it
> > takes the spinuptime + overhead before the answer comes, and then
> > the driver already timed out. 
> 
> I am under the impression that the drive does not need to do ADM if it is
> shutdown once every six days. So can't we go with phk's solution: make a
> cron job that shuts down and powers up the drive once every six days? 

I'd rather just up the timeout to 10s like the old wd driver, that way
it apparently isn't a problem anymore, we just wait for the sucker to
spin up if needed.

-Søren


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