The following reply was made to PR bin/35216; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@lists.veego.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/35216: No way to control drive speeds
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:34:05 +0100

 On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:45:02AM +0000, Kimura Fuyuki wrote:
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 >  But I suspect a lot of users miss the feature since they'd thought their 
 >  drives reside in ata world not in scsi world. cdctl(8) or something derived 
 >  from the eject command might be better for a future plan.
 
 There is atactl(8), so what about a shared code which could be used by both
 scsictl and atactl?
 
 Bernd