Subject: Re: bin/35216: No way to control drive speeds
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/13/2006 22:54:42
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:35:02PM +0000, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR bin/35216; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@lists.veego.de>
> To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: bin/35216: No way to control drive speeds
> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:34:05 +0100
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:45:02AM +0000, Kimura Fuyuki wrote:
> [..]
>
> > But I suspect a lot of users miss the feature since they'd thought their
> > drives reside in ata world not in scsi world. cdctl(8) or something derived
> > from the eject command might be better for a future plan.
>
> There is atactl(8), so what about a shared code which could be used by both
> scsictl and atactl?
Well, from the command set POW (which is what this command is about), the
device is really SCSI not ATA. This would have nothing to do in atactl.
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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