Re: Notebook disk spindown

From: Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Fri Sep 08 2000 - 18:13:41 EST


Russell King wrote:
> > With laptops, people are willing
> > to assume the RAM is reliable -- accidentally pulling the plug out won't
> > lose the data.
>
> But a buggy apm implementation and the battery running down can.

Well, perhaps the risk is worth it.

-- Jamie
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