Re: [tlug] shutting off the HD on a laptop

[Ian Wells <ijw@example.com>]

$ man hdparm

I think it's what you're looking for.  You might also need to mount any drives no_atime, to avoid waking the drive up every flush cycle.

I suspect you want to go looking for USB key based distributions, which should do what you want.  I don't imagine they care if they're running off a key or a CF card.

On 11/4/05, David Riggs <dariggs@example.com> wrote:

Is it possible to turn the hard drive off, thus saving battery and
noise, and run off main and say, a flash card in the PCMCIA slot of a
laptop? I am working on setting up a Thinkpad 50e, and would also do it
on my Toshiba 1415-S173 if I could. I used to do this on Powerbooks,
running everything off a RAM disk, and it was really nice. I could get
along without X if necessary, as I just want to be able to take notes
and such while on the go and get as much time out of the battery as I can.

David Riggs, Kyoto

Debian Sarge (2.4 now but probably 2.6 if I ever need to)

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