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From: | "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: hdparm lets your IDE disk spin down |
Date: | Sat, 07 Mar 1998 16:13:55 -0500 |
Organization: | Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt. |
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DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Martin Stromberg wrote: > > hdparm is a program that interfaces directly with the hard disk under > Linux. One of the things it can do is set that an IDE disk should > spin down after a certain idle time. If you have a motherboard with Advanced Power Management, the time until hard drive spin down can be set in the CMOS setup utility. It applies in both DOS and Windows. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich | "Autocracy is based on the assumption| | aka Fighteer I | that one man is wiser than a million | | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | men. Let's play that over again, | | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | too. Who decides?" - Lazarus Long | ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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