Small bug, potential race condition. Also may not be accurate when load is high. Change sleep 9 recommended.... :) :P
-Tai On 12/24/09, frantisek holop <min...@obiit.org> wrote: > hi there, > > i have a usb external disk that spins down grotesquely > soon, 10s of inactivity sends it sleeping. hearing the > disk spin up every time makes me think how soon it will > die if i keep this up for long. > > as atactl is not working for external ata disks used > through the scsi layer, i was wondering if anyone has > an idea of how to keep the disk spinning in a way that > read and write performance doesn't suffer too much. > > -f > -- > tower: "say position." pilot: "position." > > -- Sent from my mobile device http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30v_g83VHK4
