From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl.army.mil>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Intel 815 question
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:24:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A847D8D.2F8B3876@arl.army.mil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200102092232.f19MWMw10354@honti.mit.edu>
Andrew Pochinsky wrote:
> I'm running Plan 9 on the Intel 815 chipset mb and noticed that it
> does not turn off the hard drive light. The problem seems to be not
> with the hardware (for lesser OSes do switch the light off when the
> disk is idle). I'm wondering if anyone else had seen such a behaviour
> and if it's something to worry about.
It's actually the IDE controller light. I think what you
really want to know is whether Plan9 spins down disk drives
to conserve power, which helps on a notebook computer but
not on a desktop. I think the answer is, No. Note that no
harm is done to the disk drive by leaving it spinning, and
in fact many computer engineers think that reliability is
enhanced thereby.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-12 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-09 22:32 Andrew Pochinsky
2001-02-12 10:24 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2001-02-12 18:24 ` Andrew Pochinsky
2001-02-12 15:19 jmk
2001-02-12 19:28 Richard Miller
2001-02-13 1:16 jmk
2001-02-13 18:23 ` Andrew Pochinsky
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