HELP! : Please stop my hard disk powering down!

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From: Pete
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00

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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??

Peter Hucker (p.m.hucker@dundee.ac.uk)
Phone +44 01382 370352
15 Hillhead Road, Monikie, Dundee, DD5 3QR, U.K.

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From: p.m.hucker@dundee.ac.uk (Pete)
Subject: HELP! : Please stop my hard disk powering down!
Date: 1997/02/12
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