On Sunday 14 Aug 2005 06:18, Porco Rosso wrote: > Most of the parts(CPU fan,Chassis fans and Power unit fan) of my > machine are quiet , but hard-disk drives make a little noise(maybe round > noise of motor). > And unfortunately my machine is near my bed. > Therefore I would like to power off the machine temporally without > shutting down the linux. > But HDD's noises are not so unbearable. The noises aren't too big to > sleep(although I feel a little bit uneasy...). > So I adopt your suggestion. > Thank you for your reply. > It's certainly possible for hard drives to spin down if unused for a time, but I don't know where this is set. I think it is probably a bios setting, so check that first. If it's not there, try another thread with the subject something like 'Spinning down hard drives'.
Anne
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