> not applicable to a drive as part of a computer system. Manufacturers > may well preset a drive to go to sleep / be protective, fairly soon, > expecting computer OSs to configure the drive to best fit into the OS's > usual manner of using drives. Some computer OSs (or, more to the point, > their configurations), do actually set the drive differently than the > defaults. No. The ATA philosophy is pretty much "don't break DOS". DOS and Windows 95/98 don't know this stuff so you can't assume the OS will touch it. > deliberately using it) at boot time, or have a SMART daemon > configuration that throws up a warning about there being a very large > number of head parks within a short time period, the same as you get > warnings about read errors, etc., prompting users to reconfigure the > settings themselves, as best suited their own needs. Not a bad idea at all - file bug/send patches. Alan
