> > [Kernel checks for hdc]
> > - CDROM okay
> > [Kernel checks for hdd]
> > - hdd spins up (old Quantum 730MB, needs some additional seconds)
> >
> >
> > Isn^t it possible to send a little command to the IDE drives
> > causing them to spin-up some time *before* actually checking
> > the drives?
>
> I use IDE (although I don't have an IDE CDROM) and my computer's hard
> drives spin up before Linux even starts (I boot it off an IDE disk, in
> fact).
I don't know if you were making fun of the original poster but if you
weren't I think he was speaking of a situation where his IDE drives go
to sleep after a certain amount of idle time (hdparm -S)
To answer the question here is what THE MAN told me about it a while
ago:
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Samuli Kaski wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> short question: when I have 2 EIDE drives in suspend mode, generally the
> longer they are asleep, the longer it takes them to wake up when needed
> - how to tell the kernel to wait longer before timeoutting?
No way to do this at present.
Just ignore the messages. You can get rid of the "disabled DMA"
messages with: hdparm -k1 /dev/hd[ab]
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I don't know if there is any real value behind it but 2.1.99 seems a lot
more patient to wait for the drives to spin up. Or then my EIDE drives
have gotten over their menopause :)
-- Samuli Kaski, samkaski@cs.helsinki.fi Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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