Re: Turn on the Monitor THEN the Computer

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From: Kent Tse
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 00:00

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In article <52v1he$msk@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>,
Navindra UMANEE <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>	I haven't looked up hdparm. But the fact that the BIOS has
>this feature is irrelevant since linux (at least the one I installed)
>makes a point of not using the BIOS code.

     I didn't say that linux used the BIOS to shutdown your
     hard drive.  If you enable this feature in the BIOS, the BIOS will
     turn the disk off, not Linux.

     Hdparm allows to take advantage of your EIDE drives in your
     system (32-bit I/O support [note that you get 32-bit support only
     across the PCI or VLB bus to the IDE ports only, the ribbon cable
     is still 16-bits]), as well as, PIO modes, read-only mode,
     standby timeout for the drive, etc.

     					- Kent

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Subject: Re: Turn on the Monitor THEN the Computer
Date: 1996/10/03
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