[ale] Spinning down a scsi disk?

[Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net (Robert L. Harris)]

  We have some systems which sit idle waiting to be used as semi-hot
spares.  Those happy little machines are just running their disks.
We've recently had some of them hit their disk MTBF and die at the next
reboot.

  We're wondering if it's possible to "spin down" the scsi disks not in use.
Yeah, this won't help / and /usr much but for /usr/local/data it'll help
as that's alot less painful as loosing the data.  As the boxes sit idle
for a year or so, spinning them down will save some lifetime.

  Would setting "disconnect" in the bios spin down disks not in use or
is there something that can be set in the adaptect driver?

Thoughts, theories, crackpot ideas?
  Flames > /dev/null 2&>1


Robert


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