2000-11-29 03:32:57

by Stefan Hoffmeister

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Subject: Mobile IBM disk drive power settings?


Is there any support for the mobile IBM disk drive Advanced Battery Life
Extender power settings in Linux?

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/powerbooster

<quote>
Power Booster allows any computer running Windows 95/98 and an IBM ATAPI 4
mobile disk drive to directly control advanced power management features
of the drive.
...
PowerBooster uses a VXD to write ATA commands to the disk drive-
</quote>

TIA,
Stefan