You might check your cmos to see if the laptop is set to spin down the disk on inactivity. If so, either turn that feature off, or give it a reasonable time (a few minutes) before spindown.
--- On Wed, 10/7/09, Markus <markusma...@gmx.de> wrote: > From: Markus <markusma...@gmx.de> > Subject: [Freedos-user] Harddisk is spinning up and down very often > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 2:55 PM > Hi everybody! > > I've just installed freeDOS on an old toshiba Notebook > (Intel p...@166mhz). > Now i have the problem that after booting to promt > suddently the HDD is > spinning down. > And when i type a command it spins up. And right after that > it spins > down again. It is like up and down and up and down..... > > Is this a bug? What can i do to solve this Problem? > > Greez > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference > in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. > Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to > market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. > Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
