On Jun 9, gwr@NetBSD.ORG wrote
> How about sending a SCSI "stop" command?  (i.e. spin down)
> 

I'd like to implement this, and for IDE disks too (so that, when a power
shutdown is planned, I can do a remote 'halt' and the disks would
spin down).
Along with a disk power management facilitie, which could spin down unused
disks (some of mine are really noisy :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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