Re: WD doesn`t use disks with Linux - was Re: Re:Western Digital GreenPower drives and Linux

[linux-os (Dick Johnson)]

On Wed, 14 May 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>
> On Wednesday 2008-05-14 15:20, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
>>
>> It's not just the positioning logic that gets powered off. The
>> discs are spun down, which saves a lot of power.
>
> And drives latencies into the skies.
> Not to mention that the permanent spinups and downs also affect life.
>

Yes. Maybe there is a way to turn if off? That's why we
should be able to get somebody from WD who will answer
a Linux question, instead of the usual on-line "help."

I'm going to poke around and see if I can  find a real
person at WD.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.22.1 on an i686 machine (5588.29 BogoMips).
My book : http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/
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