[svlug] Spinning down a SCSI disk

[Satyen Sheth]

Forgive my ignorance, but why would you want to spin down the drives?
Is this a common thing to do in the Sys Admin world?

-S

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Greg Lindahl <lindahl at pbm.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:46:55PM -0700, norm at dad.org wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to programmatically spin down a SCSI disk? I've looked at
> the man
> > pages for smartctl tune2fs and found nothing.
>
> Check out hdparm.
>
> -- greg
>
>
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