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  From: Pavel Machek <pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
  To  : Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>
  Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 17:35:04 +0100

Re: spinning down faster when on battery

Hi!

> > I'd really like to tweak the hard drive spindown so that when I'm on
> > battery, it spins down much quicker; but when I'm plugged into the
> > wall, quick spin down is only shortening my hard drive life!
> > 
> > I saw bdflush was mentioned before.  Is this the recommended way to
> > deal with this?  Does it understand apm and whether the battery is
> > charging or not?
> 
> bdflush makes the spindown feature work much better than normal -- you
> should try it.
> 
> But it won't let you change options depending on whether you're on wall or
> battery power... at least, not that I know of.  apmd should run a command
> when you connect or disconnect the power, just like it does when you suspend
> or resume.  Currently that's not supported, but it would be pretty easy to
> add.

Well, you probably  could kill bdflush and restart it with different
options from apmd script. 

> I don't have time to write it myself, but I'm accepting patches for it, as
> well as for a better, centralized "dispatch script" (see the list archives
> for details).

...once dispatch script is ready.

								Pavel
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