hdparm -B for netbooks

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:34:54PM +0100, Richard Zidlicky wrote:

> it was my understanding that "hdparm -B" has nothing to do with the BIOS but changes 
> the power management feature specific to the drive?

Either the drive set the initial value, or the BIOS did. We tend to 
assume that there was some reason for that...

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