Hard disk goes idle too early

From: Marc Nadeau (forums_at_mon-oueb.com)
Date: 10/30/03

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    I have a /opt partition on it's own ide 10 Go harddisk where i put mainly
    documentation (/opt/doc).

    When this drive is not accessed for more than 5 minutes it becomes idle.

    That is okay but i would prefer a longer delay before it does idle.

    Sometimes i meed more time to read a page and when i ask (click) for the
    next one, i have to wait 4 or 5 seconds for the drive to wake up. That's a
    little annoying and somehow time consuming.

    Is there a config file to safely do that or is-it better to play with the
    bios (which i don't like) ?

    Merci. 

    -- 
Marc Nadeau
La Pagerie
http://www.pagerie.com
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