From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: hdparm lets your IDE disk spin down
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1998 16:13:55 -0500
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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.

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