> Salut,
>
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 23:48:24 +0200 (CEST), "Joel CARNAT"
> <joel@carnat.net> wrote:
>> It is pluggued using firewire and recognised as /dev/sd0.
>
> That being a SCSI device: try scsictl.
>

well, I did.
the "identify" command works, but I didn't find anything about idle in the
man page. It seems to only deal with low-level scsi operation (bus reset,
...).

or maybe I misunderstood the informations ;)

regards,
   Jo