Thanks for the information, although it didn't work for me. I'm not 100% sure I had the correct scsi id information though. I was booted off a Gentoo install CD, which isn't really a live cd for anything other than installation, and didn't have lsscsi included.
I'll have to find a real Sparc 64 live cd and try with that. Any suggestions? Owen On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 05:04:42PM -0400, David Brain wrote: > You could try something like: > > echo "scsi remove-single-device" 0 0 1 0 > /proc/scsi/scsi > > That should set it up for hot removal, which you would hope would > include spining it down. > > Of course it won't come back until you do: > > echo "scsi add-single-device" 0 0 1 0 > /proc/scsi/scsi > > You can get the scsi id stuff the '0 0 1 0' (host:bus:device:lun) info > from the command 'lssci' > > David. > > On 4/7/06, Owen Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have in my possession an old Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 server, which I > > received for the bargain price of $0. It has 2 very noisy SCSI drives in > > it, and while I'm figuring out what to do with this prize possession, I > > was wondering if there is a way to spin down the SCSI disks when running > > off a live CD. > > > > I tried using hdparm -Sx, but from the output the action wasn't > > supported by the drive. I should have written it down before shutting > > off the machine (doh!) but it was something to the effect of > > unrecognized parameter. And no, it wasn't hdparm that was complaining > > about -S, it looked more like a response from the device. > > > > I also looked for some of the scsi-xxxx tools on the livecd, but > > couldn't find anything. Not sure if that's 'cos they weren't there, or > > if those tools are obsolete. > > > > I guess I could unplug the drives for now, but in the back of my mind > > I'm wondering if I can set something up where I run off a live cd, and > > have a ramdrive that synchs with the hard drive on startup and shutdown > > for writeable data, with the drives being shutdown the rest of the time. > > Maybe a little crazy. :-) > > > > Any other suggestions? > > > > Thanks, > > Owen -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
