On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 07:54:49PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2009-Mar-20 19:19:38 +0000, Bruce Cran <bruce_at_cran.org.uk> wrote: > >There's a reluctance to include code like this, I > >think because it bypasses the ATA driver and talks directly to the > >drive. Since the driver doesn't know what the drive's been told to do, > >it can't know to adjust timers etc. to wait for the disk to spin back > >up, for example. > > This code is no worse than installing sysutils/ataidle - which also > bypasses the driver. > > As it stands, FreeBSD out-of-the-box behaves in a way that adversely > impacts laptop HDD life - and correcting this requires that the > end-user both be aware of the problem and then find, install and > configure a port to work around this. I am very uncomfortable with > this and would prefer to see the base system require less user > knowledge/intervention. AFAIK ataidle is under the BSD license, so we could include it in the base system.
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