I have an old Toshiba that it works fine on. I didn't change anything either, it just worked. Maybe you have a sketchy drive that doesn't work well with the linux power saving stuff. > -----Original Message----- > From: Marc A. Ohmann [mailto:marc at ds6.net] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 10:44 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: [TCLUG] laptop hd standby > > > Has anybody had any luck getting decent battery life from > linux laptops? I can never get the hd to spin down for any > length of time because of all the random fs activity > especially on /var. Without disabling syslogd, are there any > solutions to getting the hd to spin down? > > hdparm -S 1 /dev/hda > > doesn't work and is rather annoying because the disk spins > down and starts right back up -- probably using as much or > more power than if it had just stayed up. > > I am concidering mounting /var on a ramdisk just before > suspend but I think sync'ing to the disk when it wakes up > would be tricky. Remote sysloging is an option but doesn't > help me when I'm off the network. > > any insight -- much appreciated, > marc > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-> linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >