> > > > > > 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 ------------------------------------ This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject header.