Weasel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've two SCSI harddisks and what I'm looking for is a tool/kernel patch > that spins down those drives after some idle time and up again when > needed. what makes you believe that spinning down drives is needed at all? > PS: fyi: the scsi controller is an AHA 2940 U2W, the disks are IBM > DRVS09V and there's one swap partition on each of them. I've five md have you had a look at IBM's specs as to how many spin-up-spin-down cycles these drives are specified for? IIRC, these are server-drives and thus not specified to survive a lot of power-cycles but rather a log time of continuous operation. kind Regards, -- Eberhard Burr check http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Eberhard.Burr/publickey.asc for PGP Key -- #include <stddisc.h> -- electric cookie follows If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. -- Bette Davis
