Re: Notebook disk spindown

2000-09-09 Thread Tim Brunne
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Tim Brunne wrote: > > >*a silent hard disk hard disk is no longer feasible since kernel > >2.2.11*. > > Try: > > echo 40 500 64 256 0 >/proc/sys/vm/bdflush > > once you want to return to

Re: Notebook disk spindown

2000-09-09 Thread Tim Brunne
Richard Gooch wrote: > Jamie Lokier writes: > > Russell King wrote: > > > > With laptops, people are willing > > > > to assume the RAM is reliable -- accidentally pulling the plug out won't > > > > lose the data. > > > > > > But a buggy apm implementation and the battery running down can. > > > >

Notebook disk spindown

2000-09-08 Thread Tim Brunne
"patch" may be found at http://www.hmi.de/people/brunne/Spindown . Shouldn't Linux support hard disk spindown during periods of inactivity? Is the tiny patch worth of being included into standard kernels? Yours, Tim Brunne -- Tim Brunne | web: http://www.hmi.d