On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 03:16:59PM +0100, Newton, Philip wrote: > Chris Benson wrote: > > The disk on mine has started to whine: I'm not sure iBooks > > were designed for Linux style up-times in the months ... > > I was under the impression that disks in general were designed to be > powered-on always (and that spinning them down when not in use may conserve > energy but will wear out the disk faster).
yeah, but there's not much airflow in an iBook: the disk is under the LHS of the keyboard, next to the Airport card: ventilation slots (near the screen hinge are 10cm away -- I wonder whether it has overheated. I had an (undocumented) 88 day uptime before I wanted to try a new kernel :-) None of the linux/PPC kernels seem to support powering down disks. -- Chris Benson
