Re: USB drive enclosures with spin down

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:01:32PM -0600, Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> Well, my Mac seems to know what voodoo to send to my Vantec Nextar 3 to
> spin it down when I umount the drive from the desktop.

Well, that would seem to indicate it is at least possible with that
enclosure. Thanks.

> Have you tried
> to frobnicate the /dev entry with the apropos hdparm commands?

I have tried hdparm -y, hdparm -Y, hdparm -S #, sdparm --command=stop,
sdparm --command=eject, sg_start --stop, sg_start --eject, and a few
other "SCSI idle" programs I found on the web, all to no avail.

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