Re: Starting/Stopping SCSI HD's

2000-07-29 Thread ferret
You want scsi-spin. I'd suggest getting it out of woody, in the scsitools package. There's recently been a minor documentation fix done on it. I use it from /etc/init.d/halt on my headless all-SCSI machine so I know when I can turn it off even when I don't have serial console up. It's an OEM driv

Re: Starting/Stopping SCSI HD's

2000-07-28 Thread Simon Hales
Hi Thanks for the quick reply, but unfortuately, no luck. I have done "hdparm -h" and "man hdparm" (I already had it, it seems), but very many of the features of hdparm (including all that seem to be relevant to starting/stopping/putting to sleep hard disks) are for IDE disks ONLY. These are "h

Starting/Stopping SCSI HD's

2000-07-27 Thread Simon Hales
Hi I have a Debian "Slink" 486DX4-100, with 1Gb IDE and 2GB SCSI II hard disks (hda and sda) partitioned and mounted on /, /usr, /home, /var, and /usr/local. I also have a 420Mb SCSI II hard disk (sdb) which has no fixed mount point, but which I am using to store stuff I don't access frequently,