On Tuesday 05 July 2005 03:00, Russell Shaw wrote: > Hi, > In the bios screen, there's settings for hard-disk spin-down times. > Does this mean i don't need to worry about setting hdparm? > > Should "Power Management" be enabled in the bios or disabled? > (ie: does linux handle it regardless of bios?) > > I put debian-sid on a dell C610 latitude.
You would prefer setting the settings using hdparm. The BIOS settings typically are ignored as a whole when ACPI kicks in. If you use an ACPI-aware OS (which you probably do), I would advise against relying on the BIOS settings. Just put `hdparm -S 5 /dev/hda' in your bootup-scripts. Regards, Anders Breindahl.
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