On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 14:03 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > Not AFAIK... the take on it seems to be that if the drive itself or > the bios+drive power it up into a self-destructive state, that is the > problem of the bios+drive. I have a different opinion. Since it's known that many laptop drives do shutdown very often after a tiny idle period, and we have an OS that does like to continually access the drive, one or the other behaviours needs adjusting. Having a drive going clunk every few seconds is not going to be good for longevity. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
