From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl)
> I am running Debian 1.2 currently. My ASUS motherboard supports
> APM.
OK. First of all, you will have to build a custom kernel to get APM support,
as the generic kernel does not have it. Why? Because some machines have bad
APM BIOS and crash on installation if we leave it in. We know of at least
one laptop that does this.
> When I turn on the HDD power saving in the BIOS setup I don't
> see (or should I write 'hear' :-) that any of my 2 SCSI disks is
> turned off after a specific idle time. So, I guess the BIOS only
> supports IDE disks, right?
Since Linux is not using the BIOS hard disk driver in any case, you
should not use the BIOS hard disk timeout. I'm not sure if the "hdparm"
tool will tell a SCSI disk when it can spin down or not. You might
install "hwutils" and try that.
Bruce
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