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In article <815362601snz@wookie.demon.co.uk>
           wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk "John Beardmore" writes:

> Assuming that unix had the spindown support, the idea of mounting
> and unmounting drives in conjunction with this might be fun.

ISTR there's some discussion about exactly this on comp.os.unix,
someone's written a SCSI spinup.down utility for unix and the
purists are getting upset about it.

> In theory yes, but do Adaptec give you any utility to do it ?  Not as far
> as I recall !
> 

EZ SCSI 3.11 has a spinup/down utility for Windoze - you can set times 
for the drive(s) to spin up and down. I used to have my 3 SCSI drives shut
down at about 1am and up at 6pm. Unfortunately though, this feature is
incompatible with 32 bit access, which is why I stopped using it.
Also, I lost a 200Mb drive a couple years ago on startup - head crash -
and would agree that the startup process puts a drive under a lot of
stress, making it the most likely failure time.


-- 
Mike Tomlinson