James, You rock. I'll apply it let you know how it works out. RAM disk wouldn't work to well as I only have 40 megs of memory free. Right now the machine doing a great job though, trouble is the second ethernet card quit on me and I haven't been able to get a link light out of again. Oh well perhaps she'll just be a cheap print server. Justin > 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. > ------------------------------------ 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.