[951] in linux-scsi channel archive
scsi-idle patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Van Zandt)
Sun Nov 17 01:26:09 1996
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 20:58:08 -0500
From: Jim Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
One of the machines I adminster has a Bernoulli disk, and is
about to get a Jaz disk. Both are SCSI devices, and media wear is an
issue with both. For some time, I used the 1.2.13 kernel with the
scsi-idle patch by wingel@ctrl-c.liu.se (Christer Weinigel). I have
upgraded to a version 2.0.x kernel, but would still like the disks to
spin down.
The most recent version of the patch I could find was
scsi-idle-1.3.98.tar.gz. When I applied it (to 2.0.24, I think), the
disk would spin down, but the system crashed at the next attempted
disk access.
The author did not answer my query. Does anyone have scsi
disks spinning down under a 2.0 kernel?
- Jim Van Zandt
