[vdr] Re: 18 Minutes - what does that tell?

[Christian Pesch <christian.pesch@coremedia.com>]

Alessio Sangalli wrote:

>> The software is called IBM Feature Tool and may be downloaded from:
>> http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm
>> Since a while a Linux version exists.
>
>
> it's not a matter of linux, because it's a bootable image that makes 
> pc-dos 7.0 start on your pc. 

Since the hard disks store this configuration information in
non-volatile memory, you only have to do this once - and not even
use Windows for it.

> The problem is that I don't know if a spin-down utility is seful, 
> since every n minutes vdr or whatever writes to disk. 

I've too many hard disks which failed to start up
to recommend spin-downs.

> It would be very interesting howver, if it was possible to set a 
> 5.4krpm speed or something like this... 

For CD and/or DVD drives, something like CDBremse for
Linux would be nice. Is there such a program out there?

-- 
Christian Pesch - Software Engineer
CoreMedia AG - http://www.coremedia.com - 0700-COREMEDIA