There's a FROG in my TIVO

Okay - just wanted to rule a slight possibility.

Larry Hazel

"Kenneth" shaped the electrons to say:
Putting the unit in standby *does* stop the hard drive if the unit in
question is a Directv Tivo, and wouldn't you know it - it is. If it's not a

No, it doesn't. It stops *recording* in Standby. But that does not
means the *drives* have stopped - the unit will still index data, do
house cleaning, etc, which may call for disk I/O. So the drives may
still be spinning even in standby.

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In article ,
(MegaZone) wrote:

"Kenneth" shaped the electrons to say:
Putting the unit in standby *does* stop the hard drive if the unit in
question is a Directv Tivo, and wouldn't you know it - it is. If it's not a

No, it doesn't. It stops *recording* in Standby. But that does not
means the *drives* have stopped - the unit will still index data, do
house cleaning, etc, which may call for disk I/O. So the drives may
still be spinning even in standby.

And if a recording was scheduled, it will take place as scheduled.