Summary: Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off

[Alexander Motin]

Alexander Best wrote:
> On Wed Oct 27 10, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>     Why not just be consistent with other interfaces and provide
>> suffixes for the values to parse out integral times (i.e. 1 [second],
>> 1m, 2h)? As long as the value is behavior is properly documented in
>> the manpage (and potentially as examples in the usage message), that
>> should be enough.
> 
> that would increase usability, since users don't have to specify large values
> in seconds, if they e.g. want the spindown to happen after 24 hours (24*60*60).

Largest value that could be set more or less precisely for ATA disks is
5.5hours. Absolute maximum is 12 hours. So 24h interval is just
inapplicable.

> but this will not solve the real issue: specifying 'atacontrol spindown 1s'
> WILL damage your hardware! imo users should be reminded about this even if this
> is already mentioned in the manual.

I would say "WILL" depends on hardware. And it's reasonability also
depends on situation.

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Alexander Motin