Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 04 Dec 1998 15:20:28 +0000 | | From | Mark Lord <> | | Subject | Re: IDE freeze for seconds |
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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" -- mlord@pobox.com
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