Re: scsi hd idle spin down
Weasel <ppalfrad@cosy.sbg.ac.at> writes:
> I've two SCSI harddisks and what I'm looking for is a tool/kernel patch
> that spins down those drives after some idle time and up again when
> needed.
what makes you believe that spinning down drives is needed at all?
> PS: fyi: the scsi controller is an AHA 2940 U2W, the disks are IBM
> DRVS09V and there's one swap partition on each of them. I've five md
have you had a look at IBM's specs as to how many spin-up-spin-down
cycles these drives are specified for? IIRC, these are server-drives
and thus not specified to survive a lot of power-cycles but rather a
log time of continuous operation.
kind Regards,
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