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Re: Howto spindle down SCSI disk ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philippe Strauss)
Fri Mar 14 05:13:48 1997

Date: 	Fri, 14 Mar 1997 11:10:06 +0100 (CET)
From: Philippe Strauss <philou@sicel-home-1-4.urbanet.ch>
To: Hein Roehrig <roehrig@mpi-sb.mpg.de>
cc: Linux Scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <yup3etyhkfc.fsf@mpii01111.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me>

On 14 Mar 1997, Hein Roehrig wrote:

> 
> Philippe Strauss <philou@sicel-home-1-4.urbanet.ch> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> /* start/stop SCSI unit
>  * derived from scsiinfo by:
>  *
>  * Eric Youngdale - 11/1/93.  Version 1.0.
>  *
>  * Version 1.1: Ability to change parameters on cache page, support for
>  *  X front end.
>  *
>  *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>  *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>  *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
>  *   any later version.
>  *
>  *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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>  *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>  *   GNU General Public License for more details.
>  *
>  *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>  *   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
>  *   Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.  
>  */

Thanks, Hein, it seem to be just what I want. Too easy :) I should learn
to read the SCSI II standard :)

> -- 
> Hein Roehrig
> http://www.ikf.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~roehrig
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