Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:25:15 +0100 (BST) | From | Alistair Riddell <> | Subject | Re: New SCSI subsystem in 2.4, and scsi idle patch |
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On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I'm trying to get my 2.4.9 system to spin down my scsi disk(s) when idle. > Aparently, this is supported on IDE disks, but not SCSI. I found an old
AFAIK, the spinning down of IDE disks is done by the disks themselves rather than by the kernel. The software support consists of a method to tell the disk controller what idle period to wait before spinning down.
I don't know whether SCSI disks have a similar feature. But if they did it would be easier to make use of that than to implemement a software timer...
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