Tell ya what I can.
It works that way for SCSI drives at least.
Idling, system times out for disk access and all the drives spin down.
Sometimes the C drive will spin down also but not always.
Flip the mouse or whatever and the C drive spins up and the system runs.
Go into Winders Explorer and tap into the J drive and it alone spins up.
I suspect the same is true of IDE drives but.... uh.....<cough> I'm somewhat
ignorant of IDE stuff.
So yes, it functions both as a group and individually. Such that if I'm accessing
the J drive and move on to the K drive or something, eventually when I go back
to the J drive, if it's been long enough, it will have spun down again. If the data
is still in a buffer you can navigate around in the J drive for a while or view files
until you go somewhere that isn't in the buffers or initiate an operation that requires
actual disk activity like moving files. Then the drive spins up again and the
countdown starts all over for that drive.
Having a lot of fast hot drives it saves my system from being a space heater.
USB drives? Dunno.
Original Posting: 30 Apr 04
Does this function apply to all installed hard disks as a group or
does it apply to each drive individually? For example, a 2-drive
system, drives C and D. If drive C has had activity within the
time-out period but drive D has not, will drive D be shutdown?
Does the drive shutdown function work on USB connected hard disks?
Tnx!
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