> >NetBSD and Linux both have facility to shut off idle hard disks. The >answer thusly is you don't you just set your chosen *NIX up to spin it >off after it's been idle for 5 mins. Because everything you need is >loaded into RAM you won't need to spin it up again until you reboot. >See I'm just full of 'ideas' me ;). >
That is something you can do with system 6 too when you have ramdisk installed. After boot up from hard disk, floppy drive or what ever medium you are using you can get ramdisk to load selected contents of the hard disk to a ram disk and then automatically have the computer reboot from that ram disk. A control panel like sleeper can be used to doze the hard disk to sleep when it is no longer needed (that is as soon as the reboot from the ram disk is completed. System 6 itself won't recognize more than 8 mb ram, but the later versions of ramdisk will know what to do with the other 124 mb of a loaded SE/30: it can turn all that ram space into a single 124 mb ram disk. Marten -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Check out the System 6 Heaven: http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html Subscribe to the LEM system6 list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------- -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
