Blocking access to removable drives that haven't spun up yet

Posted Oct 15, 2011 0:11 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)
In reply to: Blocking access to removable drives that haven't spun up yet by Los__D
Parent article: A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

I'm not sure which drives we're talking about, but I've had CD drives for about 10 years that spin down after a period of inactivity, and when the client sends a read command, the drive spins up while the command executes.

However, when you load a disk, before it spins up and the drive otherwise loads the disk, commands fail immediately.

I don't know any reason a "green" drive would be different.

But it does seem like an obvious idea to have the drive hold off on completing any commands while loading is taking place.