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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 13:04:16 PST
From: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Cannot boot after install 
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> Turn the green mode crap off!  It's utterly unacceptable for pretty
> much any UNIX system you can name (including Linux) to have one of its
> drives suddently decide to take a vacation.  This thing must have some
> BIOS option for disabling it.

Unfortunately, the BIOS has no such option. I called Zeos, and they say
that the OS's IDE driver should turn power management off if it does not
want it on. This certainly seems like a good idea for any UNIX system.

Incidentally, OS/2, for all its faults, DOES keep the drive running
continuously. It must know how to keep it from spinning down.

--Brett