I have in my possession an old Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 server, which I received for the bargain price of $0. It has 2 very noisy SCSI drives in it, and while I'm figuring out what to do with this prize possession, I was wondering if there is a way to spin down the SCSI disks when running off a live CD.
I tried using hdparm -Sx, but from the output the action wasn't supported by the drive. I should have written it down before shutting off the machine (doh!) but it was something to the effect of unrecognized parameter. And no, it wasn't hdparm that was complaining about -S, it looked more like a response from the device. I also looked for some of the scsi-xxxx tools on the livecd, but couldn't find anything. Not sure if that's 'cos they weren't there, or if those tools are obsolete. I guess I could unplug the drives for now, but in the back of my mind I'm wondering if I can set something up where I run off a live cd, and have a ramdrive that synchs with the hard drive on startup and shutdown for writeable data, with the drives being shutdown the rest of the time. Maybe a little crazy. :-) Any other suggestions? Thanks, Owen -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
