On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 11:39:45PM +0100, Andrew Grillet wrote:
> 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. 

I am agianst this for two reasons:

1) mount(8) deals with file-systems, not hardware
2) better spin the disk down with scsictl(8) and let it spin up when necessary (as decided by the drive == when data needed from the drive)

Why should you not be able to spin down a mounted drive? 

Grtnx,
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