Re: Xfree and TV
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). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Re: Xfree and TV
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
Re: Xfree and TV
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: None of the linux/PPC kernels seem to support powering down disks. I had the same problem, and I think there's a couple of branched experimental ones that do support the power management but they broke a whole other bunch of stuff for me (like they all used devfs which just plain didn't want to boot and there was no warning of this.) I gave up trying to use Linux on it and reverted to OSX in the end. -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/
