Technical Note: 020300001
(Maitre'D 2002-2003)
Panasonic 9000 Hard Drive Utility
To improve the durability of your Panasonic 9000 hard drive, you can use
the HDDOFF.COM utility program available from Posera web site under the
utility download section. Panasonic has created this tool to extend the
durability of the hard drive by turning it off if you do not access it
for a specific time.
The following steps are needed to use this program.
- Install the Maitre'D Back-Office software.
- Before you create a Panasonic boot disks, edit the
AUTOEXEC.NEW file located under the PANANET subdirectory with the following
configuration key and value that you insert as the beginning of the file.
C:\LAN\HDDOFF 1
- copy the HDDOFF.COM file to the PANANET subdirectory.
This is available on Posera web site
- Create a Panasonic lan disk and boot the Panasonic
9000 workstation with the normal procedures.
Note: This utility program is included for the Panasonic 9000 workstation
disk utility in Maitre'D 2000 to 2002.