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APM Drive Spin Down Supported on IDE Devices Only

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Article ID:159235
Last Review:November 4, 2002
Revision:1.0
This article was previously published under Q159235

SYMPTOMS

With Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2), the drive spin down feature works only with IDE hard disks. It does not work, for example, with SCSI hard disk.

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CAUSE

The drive spin down feature is only supported on IDE devices.

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MORE INFORMATION

Although SCSI hard disks do support the drive spin down feature natively, Windows 95 does not support this feature with SCSI drives.

The IDE driver (Esdi_506.pdr) does support this feature.

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APPLIES TO
•Microsoft Windows 95

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