On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 06:21:41AM -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote: > Hi. The man page for apmd says it is possible for it to manage my hard > disk. I don't see any information on how this is done. > My question is can the apmd and the apmd_proxy script do this or > will this need to be done by changing settings in my BIOS? It looks to me like apmd is merely a method of reporting changes in power status. You would use something like hdparm to control the hard drive. ie., put a script in /etc/apm/event.d that calls hdparm with the necessary options. HTH, -- Mike Alborn <malborn@odoitau.dyn.dhs.org> # pgp keyid: C36DC30B # http://odoitau.dyn.dhs.org Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. -- Wm. Shakespeare
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