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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: orange on July 25, 2010, 08:05:28 PM

Title: whdload sleep hdd
Post by: orange on July 25, 2010, 08:05:28 PM

is it possible to set whdload so that it spins down automatically hdd motor after 'preloading' the game?

Title: Re: whdload sleep hdd
Post by: kvasir on July 26, 2010, 12:33:52 AM

Quote from: orange;572038

is it possible to set whdload so that it spins down automatically hdd motor after 'preloading' the game?

I think that has more to do with the kind of HDD you have, many of which (I think the S.M.A.R.T. IDE ones) can be set to spin-down after a certain time-frame. I believe idefix97 has prefs to set this. (on the netbook now, can't check.. Such things aren't too useful for UAE) There might be something on Aminet that can force the HDD to do so, in which case sticking it in the .whdload_prefs (or whatever the file in s: is called) might work. Of course, you'll probably want to run a script with a "wait 5" or something before the spin down.

Title: Re: whdload sleep hdd
Post by: zipper on July 26, 2010, 12:04:55 PM

Sleeper for SCSI, HDSleep for IDE.