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- From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 4000 problems! PLEASE READ
- Message-ID: <37124@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 03:48:57 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.142003.12937@zds-oem.zds.com> <1e8tjaINN8pn@bowen.rick.cs.ubc.ca> <in2a505.722001946@rzaixsrv1.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
- Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 20
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- In article <in2a505.722001946@rzaixsrv1.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> in2a505@rzaixsrv1.rrz.uni-hamburg.de (Elvers) writes:
- > c1a192@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Oliver Erik Seiler) writes:
- >
- >
- > >> Also when I hit CTRL-A-A to reboot the hard drive parks and spins-down
- > >> then back up again. (seems kinda weird)!
- >
- > >Yes it does... :)
- >
- > Nope... It's normal! It's called reset ;)
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- Many IDE drives are set up so that they can spin down on software
- command or after an idle period to reduce power consumption in a
- portable environment. Some of them like to spin down / up on a
- reset!
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