Re: ata: printf on every spinup/spindown?

On 2009-03-20 08:48, Bruce Cran wrote:
> Related to this, the ATA driver should probably have some means, either
> automatically or via atacontrol, of setting the APM value on disks; I
> bought a new laptop and immediately had to install
> sysutils/ataidle in order to stop the heads loading/unloading several
> times per minute by setting APM to 254.  Apparently it's fairly common
> for laptop drives to have overly aggressive power settings that need
> intervention from the OS.

I have been running with the attached patch since ages, and it still
applies to -stable, hopefully to -current too.  I have forgotten who the
original author is, so my apologies for not crediting it...