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Re: Tvungen spin-down af SCSI disk

 

In <37013B57.E097B9BC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Morten Olsen <pbk1105@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>Kan subj ikke lade sig gøre? hdparm vil ikke gøre det på en scsi disk.

Jo, det kan det da. Men det kræver en patch til din kerne for at kunne 
gøres. Jeg bruger det selv med en 2.2 kerne og min gamle Conner disk,
som kun bruges de 2% af tiden hvor min computer kører et ikke-frit OS.

Her er LSM entry'et:

Begin3
Title:		scsi-idle - Turn off SCSI disks when idle (Take 2)
Version:	1.3.32
Entered-date:	09OCT95
Description:	A small kernel patch which spins down SCSI-disks after a 
		period of inactivity. 
		scsi-idle can probably be considered to be BETA software now, 
		it works for me and half dozen other people, but YMMV.
Keywords:	SCSI idle
Author:		wingel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Christer Weinigel)
Primary-site:	ctrl-c.liu.se /unix/linux/wingel 
		scsi-idle-1_3_32_tar.gz
Alternate-site:	sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi
		scsi-idle-1.3.32.tar.gz
Platforms:	Linux
Copying-policy:	Freely distributable
End

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