From: George Styles <george_at_ripnet.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:53:58 +0100

The way I read the original message was to tell it to spin up, wait a short
while, then tell it to spin down, and then up and down, in a kind of 25%
duty cycle type situation, until it had gained enought momentium to be
used...

dont know what benefit it would have tho :)

g

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nielsen Linus (ext)" <Linus.Nielsen_at_elema.siemens.se>
To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 12:34 PM
Subject: RE: hard disk spin up


> > I'm thinking we could do a
> > PWM style spin up where we ask for data then sleep repeatedly for a
> > decreasing amount of time until the disk is spinning fast enough.
>
> We have no control whatsoever of the disk rotation. It is the hard disk
> itself that does that. We can only tell to spin up and down.
>
> /Linus
>
Received on 2002-07-26