Re: scsi disks spin down?

Marc SCHAEFER (schaefer@alphanet.ch)
6 Apr 1999 14:36:51 +0200


Ivan Popov <pin@math.chalmers.se> wrote:
> Just wondering if there is any technical reason for
> scsi disk driver not being able to spin disks down on idle timeout,
> like ide does.

There used to be support for this, look for the scsi-idle patch to
sd.c. You maybe want to backup your data first and apply it by hand.

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