On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Jimmy Lu wrote:

 : Hi folks,
 : 
 : I have a Debian box turned on 24-hrs a day.
 : The hard disk is spinning at the full speed.
 : Is there a program to slow down the spinning
 : when my system is not in use?  Please let me
 : know.  Thanks in advance.

You could enable APM support in the kernel, but you shouldn't.  Spinning
disks up and down is harder on them then leaving them running all the
time.

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