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Re: 2-4-21-rc3-benh0 - hfsplus



On Thu, Jun 12 2003, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 07:52, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 11 2003, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > Any reasonable values ?
> > > 
> > > For the moment I would allow for hdsleeping for 1hr ... so I am doing
> > > hdparm -S60 /dev/hda (-S0 respectively) also in the laptop-mode.sh
> > > script as it makes no sense for me to have the hd beeing powered down
> > > elsewhen...
> > 
> > I use -S6 and -S0 on the kernels that don't have the AAM patch. But I
> > almost always use the laptop-mode patch in conjunction with the AAM
> > patch, so I don't have a lot of mileage on it alone.
> 
> Sorry, but what is AAM ?

Automatic acousting management, essentially meant to control the
acoustic level (and thus power leve) of the drive while being used. It
will keep the drive in three states: spun down, quiet (low power
consumption), and fast. It was posted on lkml some time back, I can
repost an updated version if there's any interest.

-- 
Jens Axboe



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