SCSI disk spin-down question

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed Apr 28 06:10:20 2004

Not sure if this it OT or not! Anyone know if all SCSI disks support
spin-down under software control? Is it a SCSI-1 and above thing, SCSI-2
and above, or something which is only implemented by some manufacturers?
(Or maybe it only applies to modern disks with an SCA infterface even?)

I'm just thinking about putting some more drives in the home fileserver
- but it's noisy enough already, hence I'd like to be able to power-down
disks I'm not using except for when I need them. Possibly even hooking
into samba code to spin the disks down after x minutes of inactivity and
only spin them back up when a data request comes in...

As all my classic comp data will be on said drives I suppose that
sort-of makes it on topic :-)

cheers

Jules
Received on Wed Apr 28 2004 - 06:10:20 BST