On 5 Feb 2002, Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz wrote: > my MO-drive is working now for a while. If I mount the drive, it seems > that is spinning the disk all the time. How can I check wheter it is > spinning all the time and how can I make it not to spin all the time. > > It should be mounted, because I use it as a backup directory in our > Network....
from the scsitools package, there is the scsi-spin program: scsi-spin: must specify --up or --down. usage: scsi-spin {-u,-d} [-nfp] device -u, --up spin up device. -d, --down spin down device. -n, --noact do nothing but check if the device is in use. -f, --force force spinning up/down even if the device is in use. -p, --proc use /proc/mounts instead of /etc/mtab to do the check. device is one of /dev/sd[a-z], /dev/scd[0-9]* or /dev/sg[0-9]*. unfortunately, the -S option to hdparm doesn't work on SCSI devices. Is this feature (auto spin-down after inactivity) only available with IDE, or is it just that hdparm doesn't support this on SCSI? hope this helps, bye -- 8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<-------- Ian Tester *8)# \7\ LINUX: because geeks will find a way [EMAIL PROTECTED] \7\ http://www.zipworld.com.au/~imroy