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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7514 ; Fri, 22 Jan 93 14:00:13 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!axion!micromuse!peter From: peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Portable power saving features (was Re: Hot-swapping 386BSD and MS-DOS) Message-ID: <C17ssy.37C@micromuse.co.uk> Date: 21 Jan 93 17:34:10 GMT References: <1jdvgsINN40o@Germany.EU.net> Sender: news@micromuse.co.uk Reply-To: peter@micromuse.co.uk Organization: MicroMuse Ltd, London Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: hilly In article 1jdvgsINN40o@Germany.EU.net, bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes: > In the same vein: > This could be used to do nasty things to those notebooks that come with a hard > drive that switches itself off. > No - this seems OK. I have a Twinhead 486/33 running 386BSD and all is OK with a disk shutdown time of 1 minute... saves power quite well. On a slightly different vein again: does anyone know how to write a driver to support these "power saving" features under kernel control. I thought there was an effort in the portable market to standardise the way it works ? Just a thought... --- Peter Galbavy Tech Support, Micromuse Ltd Phone: +44 71 352 7774 E-Mail: P.Galbavy@micromuse.co.uk