[SPARCbook] more fun with hard drives... (power-saving woes)

arno uhlmelmahei arno at panix.com
Tue Sep 14 06:23:36 CDT 1999


"William M. Perry" wrote:
> 
> Well, I finally got the 6.4GB Toshiba in the sparcboo 3gx, but it seems
> that every time the sparcbook goes into power-saving mode and spins it
> down, it refuses to spin back up.  Errors trying to access anything on the
> /usr partition (I'm currently still booting off of an external drive, and
> mounting /opt and /usr off of the internal drive).
> 
> I seem to have fixed the problem by modifying /etc/power.conf to never
> power-manage the sd at 3,0 device, but this isn't really optimal.  Anybody run
> into this with their upgraded hard-drives?
  
    What exactly is `power-saving' mode?
 Are you running 2.5.1 or 2.6? My box
 suspends when i close the cover, but
 as far as spinning down the drive, I've
 yet to see it happen.

	regards,
	arno






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