Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
I lost a hard drive on my firewall machine recently so I looked for ways to
conserve the drive. I enabled power saving(?) in the BIOS so that the IDE
spins down after 5 mins of inactivity. As it is the only machine on a lot of
the time, the HD is rarely used
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:37:21AM -0500, w trillich wrote:
i have something similar which i haven't been able to disable
(not via bios, not via hdparm--at least i've not stumbled into
the right parameter yet)--
kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
kernel: ide1:
Ethan Benson wrote:
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:37:21AM -0500, w trillich wrote:
i have something similar which i haven't been able to disable
(not via bios, not via hdparm--at least i've not stumbled into
the right parameter yet)--
kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 05:44:15PM +0200, Vitux wrote:
How do you run this stuff at boot? (yes, newbie here...)
I get the same kind of errors :((
i wrote an initscript (/etc/init.d/hdparm):
#! /bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/bin
NAME=hdparm
set -e
case $1 in
start)
echo -n Configuring
I lost a hard drive on my firewall machine recently so I looked for ways to
conserve the drive. I enabled power saving(?) in the BIOS so that the IDE
spins down after 5 mins of inactivity. As it is the only machine on a lot of
the time, the HD is rarely used anyway.
Any downside to this, will it
I lost a hard drive on my firewall machine recently so I looked for ways to
conserve the drive. I enabled power saving(?) in the BIOS so that the IDE
spins down after 5 mins of inactivity. As it is the only machine on a lot of
the time, the HD is rarely used anyway.
Any downside to this, will
The downside is accessing the drive for the first time after that
5minutes. I was told, and this could be completely false, that scsi
drives are designed to basically run constantly, while ide drives not. I
heard this accounts for a lot of the price difference. Does anyone know
if this has any
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