On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > >Actually, "spin disk down and keep it down" would be nice for other > >reasons. Taking computer for a jog playing mp3s from ramdisk is > >something I'd like to do... > > Pavel > > > > > This is exactly what I wanted to do. hdparm suspend which would send > things to cache or buffer and then copy or get files only when needed. I > just hope is fast enough, but we could trigger this with tilting or > vibration and then something heavier when we find a free fall. > > This driver does not exactly has to behave like Windows. It can be > better. We always make things better.
As Lenz already suggested, you both pretty much seem to be describing laptop mode. See the documentation. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
