SCSI HD spin down

[Buchan Milne]

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Norman Urs Baier wrote:
| Sorry if this is off topic, but I just didn't now where to start,
searched
| web, HowTos, man pages, READMEs,...
|
| My SCSI HD is truly fast, but it makes at least as much noise as all
the rest
| in the box together. Normally this is not a problem, but there are times
| where it's sureley not used, for example during the last 5 minutes of
2 hr
| DVD...
| I noticed that Windows XP spins this disk down. Don't know if it is XP
or the
| 29160 Card itself, as there are actually only Linux partitions on it.
|
| Is there a possibilty doing such a thing under Linux
|
| (SuSE 7.3, basically, 29160N, VIA ApolloPro)

What filesystems are you rinning on the disk? Ext3 has the habit of
keeping disks running to write journals ... I am not sure about the
other journalling FS'es, but ext2 apparently does not.

Buchan

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