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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:12:56 +0200
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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To: Jonathan Steinert <hachi@kuiki.net>
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Subject: Re: USB attached SATA disk idle spindown
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Stefan Richter wrote:
> Johannes recently informed me that he wrote a script which is used like
> a background daemon to stop idle USB disks.  The script uses
>   - "cat /sys/block/${device}/stat" to watch disk activity,
>   - "sdparm -q -C stop /dev/${device}" to stop the motor after
>     longer inactivity.

PS:  I have seen START STOP UNIT with START=0 to be dangerous with some
FireWire firmwares.  (Motor cannot be restarted after that anymore.)
Other firmwares ignore the START bit and look only at the POWER
CONDITIONS field.  I expect various similar firmware quirks in USB land.
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Stefan Richter
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