HDSleep v1.0 ============ by Tomasz Muszynski (THOM/UNION) e-mail: muszynsk@ipeneuro.ipe.pw.edu.pl Disclaimer ========== THIS PROGRAM IS FREELY DISTRIBUTABLE. USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR RELIABLE FUNCTIONING OF THIS PROGRAM. Introduction ============ This utility turns HD motor off if it is not used for given period of time. Copy it to the WBStartup drawer on your hard disk. Program installs itself as a commodity. There is also hotkey avaiable for turning off motor immediately. Any access to your hard disk turns motor on again. If you execute this commodity again it is deactivated. Of course you can use Exchange for activating/deactivating HDSleep. I have tested it on: Amiga 1200 + Vipper 68030 turbo card and IDE 420MB Caviar 2420 hard drive, Amiga 1200 + Blizzard 68030 turbo card and IDE 420MB Conner hard drive, Amiga 1200 + FastRAM and IDE 420MB Conner hard drive. Program also tested with Enforcer running. HDSleep does not work on Quantum (45MB) hard drive installed in A1200 with FastRAM, but I hope you should not have any problems with newer drives. Requirements ============ This program works only on A1200 and A4000 (AGA chipset), cause of using low level access to not documented IDE bus registers (although I send standard ATA command this way, so you should not have any problems with different drives which have implemented full set of ATA commands). This version works only for HD master unit. Also be sure you have both commodities.library and icon.library installed. Parameters ========== Parameter may be included to Tool Types in the icon or in command line, if you use it from Shell. CX_PRIORITY=<0> - hotkey priority. HDSLEEPKEY= - hotkey. TIMEOUT=<360> - turn off time since last access to HD (in seconds), 0 means no turning off. So, at last I can leave my computer working for night and sleep in silence!!! =============================================================================