option is defined. This sysctl can be queried by feature_present(3).
Query for this feature in /sbin/atacontrol and /usr/sbin/burncd.
If these utilities detect that ATA_CAM is enabled, then these utilities
will error out. These utilities are compatible with the old ATA
driver, but are incomptible with the new ATA_CAM driver. By erroring out,
we give end-users an idea as to what remedies to use, and reduce the need for them
to file PR's. For atacontrol, camcontrol must be used instead,
and for burncd, alternative utilties from the ports collection must be used
such as sysutils/cdrtools.
In future, maybe someone can re-write burncd to work with ATA_CAM,
but at least for now, we give a somewhat useful error message to end users.
PR: 160979
Reviewed by: jh, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar at gmail dot com>
Reported by: Joe Barbish <fbsd8 at a1poweruser dot com>
MFC after: 3 days
for a configurable number of seconds, spin the disk down. Spin it back
up on the next request.
Notice that the timeout is only armed by a request, so to spin down a
disk you may have to do:
atacontrol spindown ad10 5
dd if=/dev/ad10 of=/dev/null count=1
To disable spindown, set timeout to zero:
atacontrol spindown ad10 0
In order to debug any trouble caused, this code is somewhat noisy on the
console.
Enabling spindown on a disk containing / or /var/log/messages is not
going to do anything sensible.
Spinning a disk up and down all the time will wear it out, use sensibly.
Approved by: sos
example on how to obtain information on devices on an ata channel.
PR: 84676
Submitted by: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
MFC after: 3 days
to not just do it. It is his new code that is being actively
developed so he has say over it. ru's direct changes were premature
as they occurred less than 4 hours after it was committed to the tree.
