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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: HD spindown
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.221851.6049@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 22:18:51 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <7903@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> <1992Dec23.192040.4998@gallant.apple.com>
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- In article <1992Dec23.192040.4998@gallant.apple.com> stevec@apple.com (Steve Christensen) writes:
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- >
- >Yes, the main reason for spinning down the hard disk on portables is to
- >save
- >power. The actual power down is done by switching off the hard disk's
- >power
- >plane, a feature that isn't available on desktop systems...
-
- But some hard drives will spin down if you send them a SCSI Stop
- command.
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