From: Michael O'Quinn <michael_at_oquinn.info>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 04:01:14 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote:

> Brent Geery wrote:
> > I might have the wrong, but it seems like the current Rockbox firmware
> > does not take full advantage of the times when the user initiates a
> > drive spin-up, for whatever reason (saving settings, directory browse,
> > ect.)
>
> Sure, that would be possible. But if the MPEG thread would top off the
> buffer for every disk spinup, Rockbox would fell a little less
> responsive to user interaction.

Not necessarily, if it waited until just before the Disk Spindown timeout,
since by then the user is most likely done interacting. Waiting until
then would also provide maximum benefit.

I've noticed that sometimes after interacting with a menu and the disk
spins down, it has to spin up again a few seconds later to fill the
buffer. That DOES seem a little ridiculous to me.

Michael
Received on 2003-04-28