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Re: Spinning down hard drive?
David,
Can you run a DOS box in Linux?
If so, try running COLAP.COM /T and pressing Right Shift and DELETE
at the same time. It will send an immediate spin down which
will persist until any process hits the disk. This worked under
OS/2 2.1 and DOS in my TP750C. My toshiba T200 however catches
a memory violation under windows, so your mileage may vary.
Good luck. (Full text of Colap.doc available for your asking. It's
8K so I don't want to waster bandwidth.) COLAP is freely distributed.
-Joe
On Sun, 5 Feb 1995, David Fox wrote:
> My TP755CE hard disk doesn't spin down when idle under Linux. Is
> there a way to get this to happen? Is there power management support
> under Linux yet? I like it to spin down even when its plugged in
> because the noise bugs me. Sorry to join the list with so many
> questions and so few answers....
>
> -david
>