At 00:14 +0200 on 01/10/02, Marten van de Kraats wrote: >I set it to one minute. Don't know what is appropriate. I think a >minute is still to long. Constantly spinning is a necessary habit for >hard disks to increase access time. It takes them a while to get >going when they have been a sleep. Diskettes are more efficient in >that respect.
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