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From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
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Subject: apm disk spindown ?
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Has there been any work on spinning down disks from freebsd during
idleness ?

My old laptop had a bios setting to spin the disk down, which when set
correctly could save me a reasonable amount of battery life. My new
laptop does not ...

P.

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