Re: Spin down SCSI drives

2000-11-21 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > Ekkehard Krämer wrote: > > > [scsi-spin] > > Spins down the disk alright, but only if it's not mounted. Actually, it also spins the drive down if it is mounted, giving some nasty effects when something (like hflushd) accesses the drive (like the things you've reporte

Re: Spin down SCSI drives

2000-11-20 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
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 t

Re: Spin down SCSI drives

2000-11-20 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Ekkehard Krämer wrote: > Note that the scsitools package contains a scsi-spin tool, which allows you > to spin > drives up and down manually. Also, it contains a scsi-idle tool, which I have > never > used though, so I cannot tell you anything about it. Spins down the disk alright, but only if

Re: Spin down SCSI drives

2000-11-20 Thread Ekkehard Krämer
Brian Murphy wrote: > Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > > > recently there have been a couple of posts regarding power management > > and noise management. It was mentioned, that hdparm is able to spin > > down drives. Now, IIRC, hdparm is only good for IDE drives. Is t

Re: Spin down SCSI drives

2000-11-20 Thread Brian Murphy
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > Hello list, > > recently there have been a couple of posts regarding power management > and noise management. It was mentioned, that hdparm is able to spin > down drives. Now, IIRC, hdparm is only good for IDE drives. Is there a > way to spi

Spin down SCSI drives

2000-11-20 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello list, recently there have been a couple of posts regarding power management and noise management. It was mentioned, that hdparm is able to spin down drives. Now, IIRC, hdparm is only good for IDE drives. Is there a way to spin down SCSI drives as well? RTFMs are very welcome, if only I