🚀 go-pugleaf

At one point in cyberspacetime,
Kent Tse (kent@milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca) wrote:

->     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.
	Hmmmm, funny. The BIOS _is_ set to turn off my disk. The BIOS
is set to do a lot of things but when running linux none of them
happen. They work with DOS though.

->     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.
	Yup, I looked it up though my first shot was unsuccessful
(hdparm -S 20 /dev/hda). I probably have to recompile the kernel too
as Simon suggested.
	Navin.

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