SCSI HD spin down

[Andrew Sharp]

Buchan Milne wrote:
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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.

Um, just umount the filesystems and spin the disk down.  Problem
solved.

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