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Article #2064Re: HELP! : Please stop my hard disk powering down!
From: Jan Jonker
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 00:00
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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.Ofcoz there should be a better (software) solutions, but if that doesn't work.... Good luck, Jan jonker
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