Re: FN-FORUM: External hard drive - how to stop "spin-down"?

date posted 22nd August 2007 20:32

Windows XP (or Acer) Power Management will only work with permanent
hard-drives to keep them from spinning down. It's not possible from
within XP power management (or Acer equiv.) to set power settings for
external hard drives.

This page (
http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/whitepaper.aspx?&docid=100628&promo=100510
) contains some information about ACPI-compliant power management for
USB-powered devices.

HTH

Me.


Juraj Seffer wrote:
> It is connected to a laptop, therefore there is Acer Power Management
> software instead of classic Windows XP's power settings panel. Hard
> drives are set to never turn off.
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> Jay
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