On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 04:38:14PM -0600, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:53:53PM +0100, Ian Goldby wrote:
> 
> > Just wondering if there is any facility in NetBSD 1.5 to spin down SCSI
> > disks when it goes into powersave mode? I suppose I don't mean when the
> > screen blanks, as that can happen even when the disk is in use, but when
> > the disk hasn't been accessed for some time.
> 
> As previously noted, this is likely to seriously affect the lifetime
> of your disk.
> 
> However, you could try putting something in a script in /etc/apm/.
> See apmd(8).  Unfortunately, I don't think apm and friends work for
> platforms other than i386 -- but I could be wrong.

This can work for IDE disks, but we don't have anything for SCSI disks
yet. Although it could certainly easily be added to scsictl(8)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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