Tim:
> not applicable to a drive as part of a computer system.
Manufacturers
> may well preset a drive to go to sleep / be protective, fairly soon,
> expecting computer OSs to configure the drive to best fit into the OS's
> usual manner of using drives. Some computer OSs (or, more to the point,
> their configurations), do actually set the drive differently than the
> defaults.
Alan Cox:
No. The ATA philosophy is pretty much "don't break
DOS". DOS and Windows
95/98 don't know this stuff so you can't assume the OS will touch it.
I don't think that rapidly head parking drives would upset them, those
OSs don't keep poking at files on the drive all the time, like Linux
does. Well, not in my experience.
> deliberately using it) at boot time, or have a SMART daemon
> configuration that throws up a warning about there being a very large
> number of head parks within a short time period, the same as you get
> warnings about read errors, etc., prompting users to reconfigure the
> settings themselves, as best suited their own needs.
Not a bad idea at all - file bug/send patches.
I'm not familiar enough with it to do that, but I thought I'd see (on
here) whether the idea had any merit. I've had a bit of a look at the
smartd.conf man file, and I think I can see the direction of how to go
about it, but I'll need to think about it a bit more.
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