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Date:      Mon, 3 Mar 1997 17:38:55 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        brianc@pobox.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: scsi spindown
Message-ID:  <199703030708.RAA02623@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970303013147.brianc@netrover.com> from Brian Campbell at "Mar 3, 97 01:31:47 am"

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Brian Campbell stands accused of saying:
> Has anyone modified FreeBSD-anything to spindown scsi (direct) drives
> after some period of non-use?
> 
> Seems simple enough, but while just using timeout and printf seemed to
> work, actually calling scsi_stop_unit crashed my machine.  So, before I
> start debugging, I figured I'd check and see if it had been done before.

A lot of disks will refuse to spin down.  Better to configure your disks
to spin themselves down using scsi(8) if they support it.

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