Comment 623 for bug 59695

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 17:31 +0000, DGMcCloud wrote:
> What would be a good solution is to have a disk head parking time (the
> idle time needed for the disk heads to park) which is configurable.
> However, at least on my Hitachi drive, this can't be done. Setting APM
> to 191 uses the same timing as 128, and 192 switches head parking off
> completely. There is absolutely no way to control the timing. Another
> option would be to configure Linux in such a way that it accesses the
> disk at a much higher rate OR a much lower rate. Either option would be
> sufficient to solve the problem. The only difference is that with a
> higher disk access rate, the heads will not park that often (but will
> park when you're doing nothing at all).

I would *love* to see something like this. Personally, I'm not too
worried about losing the head protection "feature"...I don't really see
how having the head parked for 1 second out of 10 will really help that
much. I, too, would like to park the heads only after it being idle for
say 10 seconds.