Re: Re: [TCLUG:1345] Turn off my computer?

[Jeffrey R Haskovec <hask0025@tc.umn.edu>]

Why is hdparm bad may I ask??

Jeff

On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Christopher Reid Palmer wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Jeffrey R Haskovec wrote:
> 
> > You can use hdparm to spin down your harddrives similar to what Win95
> > does, for instance, my hard drives spin down after 30 Minutes of
> > inactivity, this seems to work quite well.
> 
> Recent discussion suggests to me that that's a bad idea. Also, it only
> works on IDE drives -- I tried this at home where I have only SCSI disks,
> and 'hdparm' returned the error that it won't work because of the SCSI.
> 
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