On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA] wrote:

> Guys, I have a Sparcstation-20 with a rather noisy disk,
> being used as a workstation.  And the peasant who uses
> it, and those in his vicinity - are starting to complain.
>
> One possibility for me might be to ditch the disk and turn
> it into a diskless workstation.   But what I'd rather do is
> leave it there, but force it shutdown when it is not actually
> being read or written - a la Windoze.

It depends on whether or not the disk supports the "power down" command;
newer SCSI disks should. Then you can use some kind of "idle disk daemon"
to power down the disk after a specified amount of time. Unfortunately I
forget the name of the one I used to use, sorry. :-(

- Julian

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Julian C. Dunn <jdunn@ophelia.aquezada.com>
University of Toronto Computer Engineering 0T0 + PEY
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