Brian Murphy wrote: > Yes. noflushd 2.0 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/noflushd/) includes a > program in its contrib directory which will spin down a scsi disk. I > just tried to compile it and it > seems like it is written for 2.0.x kernels, changing the line which > contains SCSI_DISK_MAJOR to SCSI_DISK0_MAJOR will allow it to compile on > a 2.2.x kernel.
Looks more like a glibc issue to me. Anyway, I managed to compile it and actually spins my disk down quite nicely. It won't spin it up again, though, as they say in the docs. I haven't tried the kernel patch yet, because it's after midnight and I don't feel like compiling another kernel *again*. The funny thing is, that linux would let me continue to work on that disk in an xterm, while printing all kinds of SCSI debugging information on the console and in the syslog. I had so much of my home dir in the buffers that I didn't even noticed until I cd'd to /usr/local and couldn't find the src directory there. Half of /usr/local was missing. Freaky. After spinning up the disk again with spindisk from the scsitools package I could umount and mount my SCSI partitions. e2fsck reported some errors, but nothing major. Phew! Noflushd looks very good though, thanks for the link. MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/