hdparm -B for netbooks

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 05:08:58AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Yes - it's an option that's basically impossible to expose in a UI in a
> > sensible way.
> 
> How so? "Spindown timeout", "Advanced power management timeout", and a 
> slider with 256 entries (or 240 or whatever the number of non-weird ones is) 
> looks quite sensible to me.

What do those numbers mean?

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