Subject: Re: how to spin down a harddisk?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/03/2000 11:11:29
>On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 08:30:02PM -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote:
>> I said "not exactly correct".  There's a "stop" equivalant, and you can
>> use _anything_ as a start command (since by definition you wake up
>> when you get any command).  If you want, you could call "identify"
>> the start command :-)
>
>No, this doesn't work: "check power" or "identify" doesn't make the drive
>spin up. Only a command requiring access to platter will.

Whoops, you're right.  My apologies (hm, maybe a reset would spin
the drive up).

--Ken