look up the manpage on hdparm

Andy K.
N1YEW

On Wed, 10 May 2000 02:55:36 +0100 Ian Wilkinson
<wilko@SGTWILKO.F9.CO.UK> writes:
> On Wed, 10 May 2000 in "Re: very [OT] linux masquerading a lan", you
> wrote:
> >The P133 and memory I had laying around.
> >The Motherboard I got as a gift from a buddy.
> >The case I bought from a coworker for $5.
> >The video board came from my junk pile.
> >The monitor was a foot rest under my desk.
> >The HD was one deemed too small for other uses (3.2G.)
> >So all in all it was all sorta recycled junk anyways!
> >:-) :-) :-)
> >I will try the single floppy version as I don't like the
> >sound of the HD running!  That will be built from other
> >"junque" floating about!  I've got plenty of SBCs to do
> >that with.
> >
>
> There is a command to spin down the disk either imediatly or after a
> certain
> amount of doing nothing...
>
> Just can't remember what it is...
>
> If you find it, just remember to take the things you don't need out
> of your
> crontabs, and it should be fine, also don't even think about it if
> you have a
> caching DNS as this tends to spin it up for no apparent reason...
>
> Ian.
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