Oh well, spoke a little too soon - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522859 seems to indicate *some* scsi commands do indeed, or have at some point required read-write. In any case that does not seem to be the case for sdparm -C stop.
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #522859 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522859 -- External disk won't spindown https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444818 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
