From: Brandon S. Allbery (bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org)
Date: 08/04/93


From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: could this be realized ?(Kernel-Extensions)
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 22:18:25 GMT

In article <23b3bp$esj@sisley.uni-paderborn.de> higgins@sisley.uni-paderborn.de (Frank Westheider) writes:
> why isn't there a mechanism to Start/Stop the SCSI-Units after some
> time, if the Units are not working. So about 15 Minutes or so !

...and then you come back from lunch and type into the Emacs session that you
had left running, and the kernel needs to spin up the drive before it can page
emacs back in...

Not a good idea, I fear.

++Brandon

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Brandon S. Allbery         kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org          bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org