Re: [PATCH 0/5] SCSI and FireWire: fix/add START STOP UNIT for SBP-2disks

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Sun May 18 2008 - 16:32:53 EST


Tino Keitel wrote:
Now I need to figure out how to get the Firewire disk to spin down
using HAL. It looks like HAL just uses /usr/bin/eject, which just sends
a START STOP UNIT command without power conditions set, so the kernel
can't do anything here.

What if you teach hal to unbind sd from the respective scsi_device?
"echo -n 123:0:0:0 > /sys/bus/scsi/drivers/sd/unbind" is a manual way to do it. And the "bind" file does the reverse.

Or replace /usr/bin/eject by a shell script of yours which calls sg_start when you need it to...
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