Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > BTW what would be considered a sane timeout for standby? Does it harm > > > the disk if I set it to the minimum of 5 seconds and it gets powered > > > down and back up all the time? > > > > It may harm the disk, but it sure doesn't save any power. I'd try half a > > minute or a minute as a minimum. > > Note that if a disk dies, it's usually while spinning up...
Oops there go my plans... no seriously, thanks for the warning. > Reducing the speed of your CD-ROM helps as well. I know a friend who played > MP3s from CD on his notebook. Everytime he started playing a new song his > zillion-speed CD-ROM player had to spin up to lightspeed, consuming lots of > power. Reducing the speed to single-speed helped a lot. I use the DVD ROM very seldom and AFAICT it's off or at least in standby most of the time, but thanks for the hint anyway. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
