> > Yeah, that likely needs a little help from the ide driver. If you force > a spindown, you will effectively have parked the head for as long as the > spindown + spinup takes. That could turn out to be enough, it will take > more than 1-2 seconds anyways.
I doubt it; laptop disks seem to be optimized for spinning up/down fast (for powersaving reasons) so while for normal disks I'd agree with you, for laptop disks I'm far less sure. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
