On Fri, 7 May 1999, Bill Wilson wrote:
> Running hdparm is not the only thing to consider. If you want a real
> powerdown
> and not a periodic cycle of disk on and off, you must shutdown stuff
> that dings the disk. When I want to powerdown, I exit all such apps (this
> includes Netscape, ppp,
> Can I configure my Linux system to do the same? Most modern IDE drives
> should support this feature, is support required on the Motherboard or
> Bios to make this work, or is it all in the OS?
>
> My Linux box uses an AZZA AT socket 7 motherboard with an Intel TX
> chipset and an AMD K6-233 cp
> Can I configure my Linux system to do the same? Most modern IDE drives
> should support this feature, is support required on the Motherboard or
> Bios to make this work, or is it all in the OS?
>
> My Linux box uses an AZZA AT socket 7 motherboard with an Intel TX
> chipset and an AMD K6-233 cp
My compaq deskpro at work (running NT 4.0) spins down it's ide drives
after some period of inactivity.
Can I configure my Linux system to do the same? Most modern IDE drives
should support this feature, is support required on the Motherboard or
Bios to make this work, or is it all in the OS?
M
My compaq deskpro at work (running NT 4.0) spins down it's ide drives
after some period of inactivity.
Can I configure my Linux system to do the same? Most modern IDE drives
should support this feature, is support required on the Motherboard or
Bios to make this work, or is it all in the OS?
M
My compaq deskpro at work (running NT 4.0) spins down it's ide drives
after some period of inactivity.
Can I configure my Linux system to do the same? Most modern IDE drives
should support this feature, is support required on the Motherboard or
Bios to make this work, or is it all in the OS?
M
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