Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > I'm writing to everyone who reported to me or linux-ide about frequent > head unload problem and the report is not yet committed to > storage-fixup.conf. > > I'm a bit worried about the explosion of reports because I really > wanna avoid creating false entries as they will increase power > consumption on Linux unnecessarily. [...] Hi, I understand your concern. It mainly comes down to how much earlier your battery is drained I guess (without taking the "green" aspect into account). Would anyone have any numbers on that? If not, we could do a test ourselves (torturing our drives for a few hours extra, percentage-wise the extra wear and tear is limited). The amount of power saved will probably differ between drive manufacturers & models as well. My gut feeling is that it won't make that much of a difference, but it's indeed something to think about. Greetings, Pascal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
