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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: H340 HDD spinning constantly in USB mode? (and general disk spin time question)H340 HDD spinning constantly in USB mode? (and general disk spin time question)
From: Christopher Woods <christof_at_infinitus.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:42:40 -0000 I've noticed that my H340, running r18607-3.0-080925, spins up the HDD and keeps it spinning constantly when in HDD mode. My H140 doesn't do this, the drive spools up and down as and when it's needed. I'm concerned that the drive might be placed under an inordinate amount of wear or shorten its lifespan because of the excessive spin time; is this a known bug with the H340 or has it been fixed and I'm just unaware of the fact? Also, my H140 used to cache more from the disk and have to rely less on direct disk access when skipping tracks. Indeed, I can skip through 2/3 of an album before it needs to read more data - yet I'm sure the H340 has more onboard memory. The H140 feels snappier when changing tracks too (most likely because it's all coming from cache without having to spin the disk up to read the next track if you skip back or ahead manually). Is there an option in the RB menus somewhere to alter the cached amount, or has this behaviour changed permanently as a result of a code change since the last time I put Rockbox on my H140? (to roughly date it, the build on my H140 is from before the WPS code changed!) Cheers Christopher ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.html Received on 2008-11-24 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |