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- From: Ben Burch <Burch_Ben@wes.mot.com>
- Subject: Re: Hard disk spin-down software for desktop macs??
- Organization: Motorola, Inc.
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:12:14 GMT
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- In article <zaphod-060193090344@gregt.winona.msus.edu> Gregory Talmo,
- zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu writes:
- > In a word, no. The spin down is only a feature of the 2.5" portable
- > drives. Or so I'm told.
-
- Well, actually, there is/was an INIT called "DriveSaver" which would spin
- down
- a drive when it had not been used in a settable number of minutes. Bear
- in
- mind that the disk must spin up and etc before you can do anything to it,
- and older HDs took a bit of time to do this.
-
- I found this INIT on GENIE, and am not sure if it exists out there in
- FTP-land.
-
- -Ben
-