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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 16:31:27 +0200
From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To: reiserfs@devlinux.com, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: (reiserfs) Re: sync: why disk cannot spin down
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Xuan Baldauf wrote:

> > > does not necessarily spin up the disk!
> >
> > Because you have to issue a drive reset.
> 
> This is my intent, not to spin up the disk. (In my previous case, sync
> always spun up the disk because the filesystem was not mounted with
> "noatime".)

This will still not work, since after some time, the kernel starts
missing the drive acknowledgements and eventually issues a reset
condition on that IDE channel. See my other mail for details.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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