Subject: Re: (fwd) An Ultrix device driver to stop and start disks
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/24/1998 08:27:57
Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> Yea, I've seen this too. But I think that if we implement this kind of feature,
> it should not be implemented at SCSI driver level, but at an highter level
> with callbacks to the disk drivers, so that it can work with any kind of drive
> (IDE and ATAPI drives can go in spin-down mode too).
 
Absolutely. In fact, it really should be part of power management
code.