Re: HELP! : Please stop my hard disk powering down!

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From: Eponymity
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 00:00

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In article <33051D4A.2935@noord.bart.nl>,
Jan Jonker  <januzz@noord.bart.nl> wrote:
} Pete wrote:
} > 
} > There is an option in my BIOS to power down the hard disks after so many minutes
} > of inactivity.  I don't want this to happen, as I'm sure it's wearing out the
} > motor spinning up and down every 20 minutes, and it's annoying having to wait 5
} > seconds every so often when I access a not-recently used drive.  If I disable
} > the sleep function in the BIOS, it still does it.  Any way around this??
} > 
} 
} 
} Mmmmhh just cut the 1st wire of youre IDE cable, and this shit never
} returns.

This is really, really bad advice. The power-down is done by software
and can be turned off by disabling power management in your system
BIOS and in Windows 95, either in the APM "system device" setting
in the Device Manager, or the Power applet in the Control Panel.

-*-
charles

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From: ixl@ziplink.net (Eponymity)
Subject: Re: HELP! : Please stop my hard disk powering down!
Date: 1997/02/15
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