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

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From: David C. Hessler Sr.
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00

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My semi-green motherboard from Elite in california(I'll never do that
again) has a CMOS EnergyStar section to enable disk, display, and
general sleep times.






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??
> 
> Peter Hucker (p.m.hucker@dundee.ac.uk)
> Phone +44 01382 370352
> 15 Hillhead Road, Monikie, Dundee, DD5 3QR, U.K.
> 
> Chaos will reign over order - it's easier to implement!
> 
> BREAKFAST.COM Halted.................Cereal Port not responding
> 
> Definition of an upgrade:  Taking out those pesty old bugs
> ,....and......putting in pesty new bugs.

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From: "David C. Hessler Sr." <dhessler@keystonenet.com>
Subject: Re: HELP! : Please stop my hard disk powering down!
Date: 1997/02/12
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