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[Maria Winslow <maria.winslow AT windows-linux.com>]

I thought it was to let the energy dissipate before your turn the power back 
on, to prevent a shock or somesuch. Of course, 15 seconds seems like a long 
time to let energy dissipate...

Maria


On Friday 23 August 2002 02:08 pm, ya'll wrote:
> If I remember correctly you want to wait an amount of time (be it 5
> seconds or 15 or whatever) to let a hard disk spin down completely
> before restarting the computer. If you try to spin it back up before
> spinning it down completely you were putting an excessive amount of
> strain on something or another.
>
> - Bill
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-admin AT lists.ibiblio.org
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> machett AT ibiblio.org
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 12:48 PM
> To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [internetworkers] 15 seconds of what
>
>
> This is a completely inane question, but it has positively consumed my
> curiosity.
>
> One of the computers where I work has a penchant for crashing so hard
> that not even Ctrl-Alt-Del works.  Now, at such times when hitting the
> power button becomes necessary, I've caught myself counting 15 seconds
> before restoring power.  Finding this to be an odd sort of thing to do,
> I took some time to wonder why I did it in the first place.  I vaguely
> recall from my youthful days of textured monitors with green screens
> that, when resetting a system, one should wait 15s. for ... and this is
> where my vague memory fails me.
>
> Is my memory faulty or was there indeed some valid reason back in the
> day for waiting 15s. before restoring power to a computer?
>
> -Alan
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