On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 08:52:07AM -0700, Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 09:47:59AM -0500, Marc Williams wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 09:26, ne... wrote: > > > On May 21, 2004 at 22:25, Marc Williams in a soothing rage wrote: > > > > > > >1) My IDE HDD spins down on a reboot. It's never done that with any > > > >other distro that I've run on this machine. I don't think I like it. > > > >Is this now normal? > > > Yes, it seems so. > > > > > Rats. I would think that this behavior would put unnecessary stress on > > the HDD. > > As far as placing unnecessary stress on the disk I would not give it a > second thought. > > It is unlikely that you will be rebooting a large enough number of > times that this matters at all. I expect your uptime will be measured > in terms of weeks once you have the OS installed. 98% of all > configuration changes do not require a reboot. In most cases a simple > software command "service XYZ restart" is all you need after a change > to a config file for it to be activated. FYI, the fix for this went into mainline kernel 2.6.7-rc1 the other day. -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx
