On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 10:12:48PM -0400, Anne Bennett wrote:
> 
> How do I get my SCSI drives to spin down when there's nothing going
> on?  The hardware manual for my motherboard implies that the BIOS
> power management will deal with IDE drives only.  I thought I might
> add something to the "standby" script and let APM do the work, but
> after reading a few "scsi" and "sd" and "ioctl" manpages, I'm still in
> the dark as to how to send a command to a SCSI disk to tell it to
> power down.  Pointers appreciated.

There's nothing available for this yet. Hacking the sd driver to do a simple
power management shouldn't be hard.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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