ata: printf on every spinup/spindown?

[Lars Engels]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 07:54:49PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2009-Mar-20 19:19:38 +0000, Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk> wrote:
> >There's a reluctance to include code like this, I
> >think because it bypasses the ATA driver and talks directly to the
> >drive. Since the driver doesn't know what the drive's been told to do,
> >it can't know to adjust timers etc. to wait for the disk to spin back
> >up, for example.
> 
> This code is no worse than installing sysutils/ataidle - which also
> bypasses the driver.
> 
> As it stands, FreeBSD out-of-the-box behaves in a way that adversely
> impacts laptop HDD life - and correcting this requires that the
> end-user both be aware of the problem and then find, install and
> configure a port to work around this.  I am very uncomfortable with
> this and would prefer to see the base system require less user
> knowledge/intervention.

AFAIK ataidle is under the BSD license, so we could include it in the
base system.
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