Re: [git patch] libata resume fix

[Ric Wheeler <ric@emc.com>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

>On Tue, 30 May 2006, Mark Lord wrote:
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>>Not in a suspend/resume capable notebook, though.
>>
>>I don't know of *any* notebook drives that take longer
>>than perhaps five seconds to spin-up and accept commands.
>>Such a slow drive wouldn't really be tolerated by end-users,
>>which is why they don't exist.
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>
>Indeed. In fact, I'd be surprised to see it in a desktop too.
>
>At least at one point, in order to get a M$ hw qualification (whatever 
>it's called - but every single hw manufacturer wants it, because some 
>vendors won't use your hardware if you don't have it), a laptop needed to 
>boot up in less than 30 seconds or something.
>
>And that wasn't the disk spin-up time. That was the time until the Windows 
>desktop was visible.
>
>Desktops could do a bit longer, and I think servers didn't have any time 
>limits, but the point is that selling a disk that takes a long time to 
>start working is actually not that easy. 
>
>The market that has accepted slow bootup times is historically the server 
>market (don't ask me why - you'd think that with five-nines uptime 
>guarantees you'd want fast bootup), and so you'll find large SCSI disks in 
>particular with long spin-up times. In the laptop and desktop space I'd be 
>very surprised to see anythign longer than a few seconds.
>
>		Linus
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>
With many data centera applications, delayed spin up of SCSI (and 
increasingly S-ATA) drives is a feature meant to avoid blowing a circuit 
when you spin up too many drives at once ;-)

Ric