Re: Meaningless to spin down the harddisk

2000-06-12 Thread Anders Torger
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 12 Jun 2000, Anders Torger wrote: > > > > I would like to spin down the harddisk (hdparm -Y) to save battery power, > > but > > it has turned out to be meaningless, since the harddisk is accessed in a > > fairly periodical manner, about 5 times a

Re: Meaningless to spin down the harddisk

2000-06-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Jun 2000, Anders Torger wrote: > > I would like to spin down the harddisk (hdparm -Y) to save battery power, but > it has turned out to be meaningless, since the harddisk is accessed in a > fairly periodical manner, about 5 times a minute. So, if I spin down the disk > (hdparm -Y /dev/hda) t

Re: Meaningless to spin down the harddisk

2000-06-12 Thread Anders Torger
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 12 Jun 2000, Anders Torger wrote: > > > > I would like to spin down the harddisk (hdparm -Y) to save battery power, but > > it has turned out to be meaningless, since the harddisk is accessed in a > > fairly periodical manner, about 5 times a minu

Re: Meaningless to spin down the harddisk

2000-06-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Jun 2000, Anders Torger wrote: > > I would like to spin down the harddisk (hdparm -Y) to save battery power, but > it has turned out to be meaningless, since the harddisk is accessed in a > fairly periodical manner, about 5 times a minute. So, if I spin down the disk > (hdparm -Y /dev/hda)