On Monday 15 July 2002 18:04, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 @ 1:01pm (-0400), Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
>
> ...I must be blind, scsictl(8) has a start/stop command.  I just
> tested it with the disks in my external pack.  It works.  Just be
> sure to umount the file systems before hand.
>
Perhaps the ideal solution would be an option for the umount command ...


# umount -spindown

Perhaps this should be considered legal on an unmounted drive, so you 
can spin down an unmounted drive.

Mount should always issue spin up, since there is little hope of 
mounting a drive that isn't spinning.