To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: hwtools: scsi-spin -- an additional program for hwtools...
From: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 04 Apr 1998 17:15:14 -0600

Package: hwtools
Version: 0.3-4
Severity: wishlist

Here's a small program I wrote called scsi-spin that lets you spin up
and down scsi drives.  I thought you might consider it for inclusion
in the debian hwtools package, and perhaps from there into the
upstream source somewhere.  Thanks...

This command is particularly useful if you've got noisy (or hot)
drives in a machine that you rarely need to access.  This is *not* the
same as the kernel patch that's floating around that will
automatically spin down the drive after some time.  scsi-spin is
completely manual, and spinning down a drive that's in use, especially
the one containing the scsi-spin binary, it probably a *really* bad
idea.

You can build it with GNU make, and this command:

  make CC=g++ CFLAGS="-g -Wall -O2 -I/usr/src/linux/include" scsi-spin

It doesn't really need g++, but I just wanted the extra type
checking...

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Date: Thu,  6 Sep 2001 23:46:56 +0200

Many enhancements for scsi-spin were written by Eric Delaunay
<delaunay@debian.org>.
See man page for more informations.

--
 Eric Delaunay         | Le travail est trop s�rieux pour le confier
 delaunay@debian.org   | � ceux qui veulent se tuer avec.    Jissey.