Subject: Re: how to spin down a harddisk?
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/03/2000 13:06:22
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 08:30:02PM -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> I said "not exactly correct".  There's a "stop" equivalant, and you can
> use _anything_ as a start command (since by definition you wake up
> when you get any command).  If you want, you could call "identify"
> the start command :-)

No, this doesn't work: "check power" or "identify" doesn't make the drive
spin up. Only a command requiring access to platter will.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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