To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: hwtools: scsi-spin -- an additional program for hwtools... From: Rob Browning Date: 04 Apr 1998 17:15:14 -0600 Package: hwtools Version: 0.3-4 Severity: wishlist Here's a small program I wrote called scsi-spin that lets you spin up and down scsi drives. I thought you might consider it for inclusion in the debian hwtools package, and perhaps from there into the upstream source somewhere. Thanks... This command is particularly useful if you've got noisy (or hot) drives in a machine that you rarely need to access. This is *not* the same as the kernel patch that's floating around that will automatically spin down the drive after some time. scsi-spin is completely manual, and spinning down a drive that's in use, especially the one containing the scsi-spin binary, it probably a *really* bad idea. You can build it with GNU make, and this command: make CC=g++ CFLAGS="-g -Wall -O2 -I/usr/src/linux/include" scsi-spin It doesn't really need g++, but I just wanted the extra type checking... -- Rob Browning PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 23:46:56 +0200 Many enhancements for scsi-spin were written by Eric Delaunay . See man page for more informations. -- Eric Delaunay | Le travail est trop sérieux pour le confier delaunay@debian.org | à ceux qui veulent se tuer avec. Jissey.