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From: Marko Schuetz <marko@kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Harddisk spindown for laptop?
Date: 09 May 1997 15:26:01 +0200
Organization: J.W.Goethe-Universit"at, Frankfurt, Informatik
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

> 
> brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) wrote:
> 
> > Can't you let your BIOS do it ?
> 
> Btw., that's actually the BIOS telling it to the drive at boot time,
> and the drive will remember it.

Ooops, of course. I hadn't looked there.

Marko