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- From: Steve Christensen <stevec@apple.com>
- Subject: Re: HD spindown
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.181651.14346@gallant.apple.com>
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:16:51 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.192040.4998@gallant.apple.com>
- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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- In article <103099@netnews.upenn.edu> , george@mech.seas.upenn.edu writes:
- >you can send a siginal to scsi drives to park the heads, which
- >in some cases ( like my internal quantum ) the drive responds
- >by spinning down. ( pretty neat, but not too useful.. )
- >
- >There is an init called scsi saver that is supposed to send the
- >head park signal after a period of inacitvity. It doesn't work
- >at all for me though.
-
- This only works for drives that support the command, so there's
- not a general -guaranteed- method of doing this for desktop
- Macs...
-
- steve
-