hdparm -B for netbooks

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Matthew Garrett wrote on 23.02.2010 23:09:
> 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...

And what does Windows do? I have the strange feeling it doesn't assume
the same and instead simply sets something it thinks is sensible, which
afaics results in Hardware manufactures not to care much what the
initial value for the drive is or what the BIOS sets. If that's the case
(I never checked and am not familiar with Windows enough to know) then
wouldn't it be the most sensible thing to do something similar?

CU
knurd