Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:21:21 +0200 | From | Lenz Grimmer <> | Subject | Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk |
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Head parking while the system running is almost useless, since sooner or > later, someone's going to write/read something.
Correct, that's why we're discussing to freeze the request queue as well.
> If you want head parking at shutdown, I suggest using hdparm -y. This puts the > drive to sleep, which includes spindle spindown and, included, appropriate > head parking.
But it suffers from the same fate - as soon as the disk receives a new request, it will spin up again. So there is no gain, except that just parking the head without spinning down the spindle can be performed much faster.
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