laptop hard disk etiquette

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Ven 26 octobre 2007 17:26, Pádraig Brady a écrit :

> I understand from the comments in the bug that windows sets
> the values so the BIOSes don't bother setting appropriate values.
>
> Also what is causing the drive to "load"
> so often after an "unload"?

On old hard drives pretty much anything can cause the disk to spin up
again. Sometimes querrying the hard drive status (are you suspended?)
is sufficient to wake it up (don't laugh)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot