Re: [Freedos-user] Harddisk is spinning up and down very often

2009-10-07 Thread Alain Mouette
BE CAREFULL, there is a very limited number o spindown allowed. This can burn you HD. (There was a similar bug in Ubuntu) Markus escreveu: > 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 suddent

Re: [Freedos-user] Harddisk is spinning up and down very often

2009-10-07 Thread Larry
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 wrote: > From: Markus > Subject: [Freedos-user] Harddisk is spinning up and