Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 04:17:15PM -0600, Rick C. Petty wrote:
> What I was hoping is that someone could point me to the "spinup" command as
> I have a drive which does not spin up until it receives this command.  Any
> takers?

There is no such command. Disks are supposed to spin up at the first
read/write automatically. It can take a while though.

Joerg