debian man page for scsi_stop

SCSI_STOP(8)							     SG3_UTILS							      SCSI_STOP(8)

NAME
       scsi_stop - stop (spin down) one or more SCSI disks

SYNOPSIS
       scsi_stop [--help] [--verbose] [--wait] DEVICE [DEVICE]*

DESCRIPTION
       This Bourne shell script calls the sg_start utility on each given DEVICE. The purpose is to spin down (stop) each given DEVICE.

OPTIONS
       Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well.

       -h, --help
	      print out the usage message then exit.

       -v, --verbose
	      increase level or verbosity.

       -w, --wait
	      wait for the spin down (stop) on each given DEVICE to complete.  The default action is to do each stop in immediate mode.

NOTES
       The sg_start utility calls the SCSI START STOP UNIT command and can either start (spin up) or stop (spin down) a SCSI disk depending on the
       given command line options.

EXIT STATUS
       The exit status of this script is 0 when it is successful. Otherwise the exit status is that of the last sg_start utility called.  See  the
       sg3_utils(8) man page.

AUTHORS
       Written by D. Gilbert

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2009 Douglas Gilbert
       This  software  is distributed under a FreeBSD license. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PUR-
       POSE.

SEE ALSO
       sg_start (sg3_utils)

sg3_utils-1.28							    August 2009 						      SCSI_STOP(8)