[newbie] Laptop sleep settings

2002-12-10 Thread Noah A Hicks
Could anyone tell me how to adjust my laptop sleep settings? I am running a Dell Lattitude LS w/ Mandrake 9.0. In 8.2 the HD would go to sleep (stop spinning) automatically. 9.0 leaves it on all the time. I am thinking this will wear it and suck up my battery so I want to make it stop spinning

Re: [newbie] Laptop sleep settings

2002-12-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 10 Dec 2002 7:59 am, Noah A Hicks wrote: Could anyone tell me how to adjust my laptop sleep settings? I am running a Dell Lattitude LS w/ Mandrake 9.0. In 8.2 the HD would go to sleep (stop spinning) automatically. 9.0 leaves it on all the time. I am thinking this will wear it

Re: [newbie] Laptop sleep settings

2002-12-10 Thread RichardA
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 16:09, Derek Jennings wrote: However there is not much point using it since the Ext3 file system does a write to the HD every 5 seconds. I have just spent days trying to tune the file system to be able to stop the HD without success. If anyone can actually do