Re: Hard disk spinning down
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Jimmy Lu wrote:
: Hi folks,
:
: I have a Debian box turned on 24-hrs a day.
: The hard disk is spinning at the full speed.
: Is there a program to slow down the spinning
: when my system is not in use? Please let me
: know. Thanks in advance.
You could enable APM support in the kernel, but you shouldn't. Spinning
disks up and down is harder on them then leaving them running all the
time.
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