[Sderby] SCSI disk idling. (?)

[hemstock at tiscali.co.uk]

>>-- Original Message --
>>Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:46:08 +0000
>>From: David Jolley <dave at lucien.cx>
>>To: South Derby LUG General Mailing List ><sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>>Subject: Re: [Sderby] SCSI disk idling. (?)
>>Reply-To: South Derby LUG General Mailing List ><sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>>
>>
>>Christopher Gavin wrote:
>
>>hmm sorry to reply to my own message but I found something ... >a patch
>>called scsi-idle.
>>
>>http://fresh.t-systems-sfr.com/linux/src/.warix/scsi-idle->2.4.23.tar.gz.html
>>
>>what it doesnt do however is spin down more
>>han 1 disk at a time.
>>
>>which makes it kind of useless for a production server with 14 >disks.

>>
>>so still looking ...
>>
>>
>>
>That daemon in the .tar.gz should do what you want, but you'll >have to

>have 1 daemon per disk in it's current sta
>>e - I can see no code in it
>to check for multiple instances of it being run, so you'll need >to run

>the daemon with the scsi device's device node /dev/sdx for each >of the

>/dev/sdx's that you have in the system.
>
>Either that, or you have the sour
>>e, modify it to probe for all SCSI
>disks in the system and do them all automatically :)
>
>Cheers
>
>Dave

I know a guy who programs device drivers for a living and he'd be only too
happy to help.

Mike.