> Is there a traditional Solaris way to send a
> SCSI disk the STOP UNIT command? 

powerd(1M) does it [*] when you setup the system to
power down disks when they have been idle for
some time (==> configure with the dtpower command).

Works only on disks controlled by the sd(7D) driver, 
so no power management for P-ATA disks on the x86
platform (for p-ata, see the "standby" setting in 
/kernel/drv/ata.conf).

And (IIRC) it doesn't work for USB devices, because scsa2usb
filters out scsi start/stop unit commands.


[*] actually the sd(7d) kernel driver implements it
 
 
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