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Old 05-05-2008
Spindown 0.2 (Default branch)
Spindown is a daemon to spin down idle disks and thus save energy and give the disks a longer lifetime. It also works with USB disks and hot-swappable disks because it uses the device ID to identify the disk instead of the device name (such as hda or sdb). This means that it doesn't matter if the disk is swapped while the daemon is running. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes:
Now you can set the spindown time for every individual disk, and reload the settings by sending a SIGHUP to spindownd.Image

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scsi_start

SCSI_START(8)							     SG3_UTILS							     SCSI_START(8)

NAME

       scsi_start - start one or more SCSI disks

SYNOPSIS

       scsi_start [--help] [--verbose] [--wait] DEVICE [DEVICE]*

DESCRIPTION

       This Bourne shell script calls the sg_start utility on each given DEVICE. The purpose is to spin up (start) 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 up (start) on each given DEVICE to complete.  The default action is to do each start in immediate mode.

NOTES

       If a large number of disks are spun up at the same time (i.e. without the --wait option) then the power supply may be overloaded.

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_START(8)