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From: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk>
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Subject: IDE spindown without APM BIOS
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 09:59:06 -0000 
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Hello chaps,

Does anyone know if and how its possible to get my old IDE hard disk to spin
down after a period on inactivity? I'm running 2.2.7-RELEASE on an old
compaq 486 WITHOUT any power management in the BIOS. Can this be done?

Thanks for any help,

Jeff

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