[juneau-lug] Re: SCSI Disk power management question

> > > 
> > > the machine is an older Powermac 7100 running a 2.4 series nubus 
> > > kernel.  The disk is stock apple running on the internal SCSI interface 
> 

OK - a patch can be found at 

ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/

there is a version for 2.4.18 and 2.4.19.

The description reads:

Begin4
Title:          scsi-idle - Turn off SCSI disks when idle 
Version:        2.4.19
Entered-date:   2002-08-25
Description:    Small programs to start and stop SCSI disks.  Also 
        contains an optional kernel patch which spins up SCSI-disks when
        they are accessed and a daemon that spins down drives when idle.
Keywords:       SCSI idle spin down power save
Author:         dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Daniel Sterling) (update to 2.4.19)
Author:         hifi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gernot Zander)
                (update to 2.4.18)
Author:         xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Trent Piepho) (update to 2.0.36,2.2.10)
Author:         mtjachim@xxxxxxx (Matthew T. Jachimstal) (update to 2.0.30)
Author:         wingel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Christer Weinigel)  (original)
Maintained-by:  dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Daniel Sterling)
Primary-site:   http://www.lost-habit.com/scsi.html
                scsi-idle-2.4.19.tar.gz 
Original-site:  http://www.speakeasy.org/~xyzzy/scsi.html
Platforms:      Linux
Copying-policy: Freely distributable
End

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