Subject: Re: atactl equivalent for usb disks
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/03/2005 22:07:20
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:29:40PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
>   On May 03 at 16:41, Martin Husemann spoke:
> 
> > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:39:18PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
> > > is there an equivalent of atactl that can configure things like
> > > suspend timeout and works with USB disks?
> > 
> > Not sure if scsictl(8) has what you are looking for...
> 
> No, it doesn't seem so.
> I' looking for the setstandby command.

This is part of the ATA command set. Although USB disks are usually ATA drives
behind a USB/ATA bridge, they appear as SCSI to the system, and use the
SCSI command set. I don't know if there is an equivalent feature in
the SCSI feature set, and if the USB/ATA drive would properly translate it.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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