Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Jul 2000 20:58:19 +0200 | From | Marc Lehmann <> | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: sync: why disk cannot spin down |
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On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 06:40:48PM +0200, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote: > > messages from the kernel drawing for your attention and not putting the > > drive to sleep. > > The error message is natural, a drive put to sleep is put there > permanently, since the drive is supposed to power down its interface
It still isn't an error, though, and linux could, if it were better-than-neccessary, take this into account.
Linux doesn't bitch on spinned-down scsi disks at boot either, but properly starts them.
> Since SCSI drives are only manually powered down, the Kernel is fine in > this respect
"Fine" = "lacks any support". So just for me, that isn't fine. But it's bearable ;)
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