Short: DiskKicker - avoid HDD spin downs (v1.00) Author: jg@actuality.demon.co.uk (Jon Gregory) Uploader: jg actuality demon co uk (Jon Gregory) Type: util/cdity Architecture: m68k-amigaos DiskKicker is a simple commodity to avoid annoying spin up pauses etc. on hard drives where the power management features can't be dissabled. It accepts 2 tooltypes/command line args :- PATHNAME= Specifies path where kick files are created/removed INTERVAL= Interval between kicks 1=2secs 2=4secs 3=8secs 4=16secs (4secs is default) I've included the E source code as well, it's just a modified RKM example of a commodity. Any comments etc. e-mail jg@actuality.demon.co.uk DiskKicker is Freeware and though i don't expect it to cause any problems you use it at your own risk.