RE: Permanent HD spindown?

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Hi,

> It sounds like what you are doing is pretty dangerous think about it,
> you are telling the drive to spin down and then an app tries to access
> the drive and it spins up again.
> if the drive failes to spin up (because you have been successful), the
> app is going get a read failed,
> leaving your system in an undeterministic state.

Situation can be even more dangerous if the disk hosts the swap space ...

Thanks,

Rajat

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