Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:29:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:29:26 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:38671 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:29:07 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6 IDE 19 To: riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:44:29 +0000 (GMT) Cc: arjanv@redhat.com (Arjan van de Ven), dalecki@evision-ventures.com (Martin Dalecki), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Rik van Riel" at Mar 11, 2002 06:02:38 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > the OS gets involved. > > Just "don't enable" is not an option. > > I've heard some talk about drives that turn it on > automatically when they get "too busy". Its also a pain because some drives seem to drop into snail racing mode when you turn it off - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/