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From: fadushin@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Fred Dushin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Leaving Mac On
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.050134.8111@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 91 05:01:34 GMT
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In article <8bjkcly00WB64_r1Mx@andrew.cmu.edu> jp48+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan Pace) writes:
>   What I can say is that there is a way to power your HD up and down without
>shutting off the Mac.  I have a control panel device called SCSI Saver that
>was written and distributed to the public domain.  You throw it in the system
>folder and then set the number of minutes of non-disk access until the drive
>is to be spun down.  The drive will automatically come up to speed when access
>is requested (but it takes about 20 seconds more).

Could you tell us more about your configuration?

The reason I ask is that I am running Siverlining, and I am wondering whether
such cdevs can potentially interfere with such disk partitioning/
management software?  Do you know of any horror stories? 

Fred Dushin  				Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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