Messages in this thread | | | From | Martin Wierich <> | Subject | turning off harddisk and listen music from ramdisk under Linux | Date | Sun, 02 Nov 2003 23:04:54 +0100 |
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Hi guys,
I want to use a PC to listen mp3-music. Therefore I have to buy a new harddisk. I use Linux and I want to turn off all harddisks while listening, because they are so noisy. My plan is to let some homegrown software regularly copy the music data from a harddisk to a ramdisk and to turn off the harddisk then. Then I would listen from the ramdisk.
My questions: - is this possible? - how do I turn off a harddisk from software under Linux? - do I have to buy a special harddisk? - how does linux react on turning off all harddisks? Can I cut away any superfluous stuff like CRON and let Linux also run on a ramdisk? Or do I need some special embedded Linux distribution? - or is there a readymade solution?
There are the following circumstances: - for religious reasons I only use _old_ hardware (64MB, 100Mhz) - I am planning to have a boot partition just for the sole purpose of listening to music - I want to keep this boot partition small: no X windows stuff, no network and so on. The system should start up very fast. - I have a SuSE Linux distribution on CD Rom. I only have a 56K modem. I don't want to download software for hours.
Any help would be appreciated.
cheers
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