Victor Lowther wrote: > Hmmm... these settings have worked well for me over the years. What are > these better heuristics?
a fixed timeout is almost always a bad idea. Modern (newer than 5 years) notebook drives do intelligent spindown if you set the APM value lower than 128. > OK, do we have a better method of reducing hard drive power consumption > when running on battery? Actually, spindown does not really save much power. -- Stefan Seyfried R&D Team Mobile Devices | "Any ideas, John?" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out." This footer brought to you by insane German lawmakers: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
