Re: IDE freeze for seconds

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Johnny_Teve=DFen?= (j.tevessen@gmx.net)
Thu, 3 Dec 1998 22:05:12 +0100


Quoting Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz):

> Get bdflush-1.6 from sunsite, there's way to postpone writes until
> disk is spinned up again. I believe this is what you want.

That's interesting. I was told that there's no way to find out whether
an IDE drive is spinning or not. At least not without spinning it up.

ciao,
johnny

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