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Stuart Tedford wrote:
> The only reason to keep the drive
> spinning for the spin down time is if the user has accessed the drive, not
> if the user has pressed a button.

No, we keep spinning the disk until the user stops pressing buttons for <timeout> seconds. The reason is that this makes browsing directories a lot more comfortable (and power efficient) than having the disk spin up and down all the time.

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