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Re: Howto spindle down SCSI disk ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philippe Strauss)
Fri Mar 14 05:03:49 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 11:00:50 +0100 (CET)
From: Philippe Strauss <philou@sicel-home-1-4.urbanet.ch>
To: MaDsen Wikholm <mwikholm@at8.abo.fi>
cc: Linux Scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199703132040.WAA32326@at8.abo.fi>
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, MaDsen Wikholm wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.3.95q.970313190828.17910A-100000@sicel-home-1-4.urbanet.ch> you wrote:
> : I have some noisy and power hungry disks that I'd like to spindle down
> : after unmounting them, but while the rest of the system is still running.
> : I remember such as a patch to auto-spindle down scsi disk when idle. What
> : I need is a manula way of stoping a disk, such as
>
> I've got a patch for the kernel (2.0.29 and 2.1.28) but I haven't
> really tried them since I have constant access to my scsi. They used
> to work in kernel 2.0.[0-25] at least.
> If you find no other solution I'll send them, if you like...but be
> warned, they are not tested and might cause you massive trouble...
OK, I'll go for you patches, thanks. I will also try to hack a user-space
utility to do what I want (shut them down manually) based on your code.
(I have not yet found such a thing)
>
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TIA,
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