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From: peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy)
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Subject: Portable power saving features (was Re: Hot-swapping 386BSD and MS-DOS)
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Date: 21 Jan 93 17:34:10 GMT
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In article 1jdvgsINN40o@Germany.EU.net, bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes:
> In the same vein:
> This could be used to do nasty things to those notebooks that come with a hard
> drive that switches itself off.
> 

No - this seems OK. I have a Twinhead 486/33 running 386BSD and all is OK with
a disk shutdown time of 1 minute... saves power quite well.

On a slightly different vein again: does anyone know how to write a driver to
support these "power saving" features under kernel control. I thought there was
an effort in the portable market to standardise the way it works ?

Just a thought...


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Peter Galbavy
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