[ltp] Aggressive Powersaving

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 09 Feb 2010, Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
> I read somewhere (forgot where) that sata power management shouldn't
> be messed with in hot swappable devices. But maybe that is not true on
> later kernels?

The link might not come up by itself on hotplug, but you do have a hook to
know when you need to kick it back up in this case, as the ACPI layer will
send an event about the hotplug.

> Actually now that I think about it, since I use the DVD drive quite
> sparingly, do you think it is a bad idea to have it on min_power all
> the time? Will it affect my ability to watch DVD's etc?

Well, at worst you will need to switch the SATA link to performance mode
manually and trigger a hotplug.  Unless there are bugs.  I can't test that,
as my T43 has a PATA bay.

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