Re: 2-4-21-rc3-benh0 - hfsplus
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 09:09, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 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.
>From that it is not really clear what that patch does... I mean will
that patch try to keep the drive in the lowest powermode possible all
the time ?
Hmmhh exactly that would be needed for cpufreq... atm it is either fast
or slow but not automagically detected on cpu load...
> It was posted on lkml some time back, I can
> repost an updated version if there's any interest.
At least I am interested...
Would be nice if it applies cleanly to the rsync version of
benh-devel...
Soeren.
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