scsi-stop, scsi-start and scsi-idle
scsi-idle is a package for controlling the motors in your SCSI disks. There
are three programs, scsi-stop, scsi-start, and
scsi-idle. The first two allow you to spin up and spin down you
drives manually. You don't need a kernel patch to use these programs. The
third program, scsi-idle, is a daemon which will spin down your discs
after an idle timeout. You do need the kernel patch to allow this, since one
of the things the kernel patch does is provide a way to get the idle time of a
disk. The kernel patch also allows the kernel to spin up your drives
automatically when they are accessed. This doesn't work perfectly, if you
access the drive via a swap partition or by trying to mount a filesystem on
it, bad things happen.
I updated the patch to work with the the 2.0.36 kernel and again to work with
2.2.10. I also wrote the scsi-start and scsi-stop programs. The 2.2.10
version also includes the patch for 2.0.36, and should work fine with a 2.0.x
kernel.
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