[svlug] Spinning down a SCSI disk

[norm@dad.org]

Greg Lindahl <lindahl at pbm.com> writes:
>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.
>
Thank you. But my reading of the hdparm page strong suggests that it only
supports spin down for IDE drives.

Furthermore when I do:
    /hdparm   -C /dev/sdb
I get
   drive state is:  unknown

and when I do
     hdparm -Y /dev/sdb
I get:
  issuing sleep command
  HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(sleep) failed: Invalid argument

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