Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Dec 1997 15:23:41 +0300 (IST) | From | Gadi Oxman <> | Subject | Re: ide disk spin down & won't restart |
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On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Alain Williams wrote:
> Hi, > > I have just installed redhat 5.0 (kernel 2.0.31) on my Gateway2000 Solo laptop. > I did a complete reinstall (reformat the disk) as I wanted to repartition. > > I find that if the hard disk spins down the kernel won't bring it up again. > The disk will spin down either because it hasn't been used for some time or when I close > the laptop lid (in which case pressing the restart button takes it out of 'sleep' mode).
Use "mem=nopentium" as a command line parameter to the kernel.
Gadi
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