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Re: Question {about 2940UW spindown}
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Balazs Nagy)
Thu Jun 11 21:23:18 1998
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:19:16 +0000
From: Balazs Nagy <nagy@ibm.net>
To: Kevin Chu <kevin@portal.ca>
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Kevin Chu wrote:
>
> Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
>
> > You can do this with the hdparm utility, wich is avalible on the
> > distributions
> >
> > It's easy to setup:
> >
> > hdparm -S timeout /dev/some_hard_disk
>
> Do you really want to spin down your disks? Like turning your
> computer off, doesn't spinning the disks down only to spin them up
> later cause more wear than just letting them spin?
>
> Kevin
>
Sorry, but hdparm works only for IDE, for SCSI disks you should
try the package of Sylvain Pion:
http://www.inria.fr/prisme/personnel/pion/progs/linux/scsi-idle-2.1.105.tgz
of course it is under Kernel-2.1.105 and therefore experimental.
Good luck,
Balazs
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