Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!amdcad!lll-crg!caip!daemon From: mwm%ucbopal@BERKELEY.EDU@caip.RUTGERS.EDU Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: leaving my amiga on Message-ID: <1156@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sun, 2-Feb-86 10:43:13 EST Article-I.D.: caip.1156 Posted: Sun Feb 2 10:43:13 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 3-Feb-86 06:19:10 EST Sender: daemon@caip.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 21 From: Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer Given the time it takes to get an Amiga up from power-off, I'm tempted to leave it on all the time. This should be good for the electronic parts of the box (power-on surge being the worst part of normal wear), and not good for the monitor (so I turn it off). However, I'm pretty sure that the drivers continually checking for disks in the floppy drives is *not* good for them. The clunk-clunk of the check is pretty annoying, too. I'm tempted to put disks in the drive, and leave them there. However, I don't know how this will be for either the drive or the disk. I know doing that with 8" drives does awful things to them both. Someone want to tell me what leaving disks in a power-ed on Amiga for long periods (say, 24-48 hours without use, worst case) will do to the disk and the drive? Anything wrong with the basic idea of leaving the Amiga on with the monitor off? Thanx,