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HDSleep v1.1
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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 III 68030 turbo card and IDE 540MB Caviar hard drive,
Amiga 1200 + Blizzard II 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.
Important
=========
To install HDSleep you can put it to WBStartup drawer, but there can be
some problems with no time reset on disk activity. You should put it to
startup-sequence before IPrefs - it should work properly.
...
Run >NIL: HDSleep <parameters>
C:IPrefs
...
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). 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.
CX_POPKEY=<ctrl alt h> - hotkey to open window.
CX_POPUP=<YES> - opens window at start.
HDSLEEPKEY=<control h> - hotkey.
MASTERTIME=<360> - turn off time since last access to Master HD
(in seconds), 0 means no turning off.
SLAVETIME=<360> - turn off time since last access to Slave HD
(in seconds), 0 means no turning off.
WARNING=<NO> - warns you about HD off. Window is opened on
default public screen.
WARNINGTIMEOUT=<5> - time when you will be warned before HD off.
Window
======
Sleep - Sleep HD now and close window.
Abort - Reset timer and close window.
History
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v1.0 - First release.
v1.1 - Removed bug with command line.
Removed bug when removing HDSleep from memory via second run.
Now supports second HD unit.
Optimized code.
Added new options (WARNING, WARNINGTIMEOUT) and information window.
Credits
=======
Kamil Iskra - for reporting me some bugs.
Marius Sundbakken - for bugs report and some requests
So, at last I can leave my computer working for night and sleep in silence!!!
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