scsi-spin - spin up and down a SCSI device

       Eric Delaunay <delaunay@debian.org>, 2001
       Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>, 1998

                                                03 September 2001                                   scsi-spin(8)

scsi-spin let the user to manually spin up and down a SCSI device.

       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, is probably a really bad idea.

       To avoid running in trouble with such cases, scsi-spin verifies  that  the  device  to  work  on  is  not
       currently  in  use  by scanning the mounted file system description file for a partition living on it and
       issue an error if this the case.

       scsi-spin - spin up and down a SCSI device

-u,--up
              spin up device.

       -d,--down
              spin down device.

       -e,--loej
              load or eject medium from drive (use along with -u or -d )

       -w,--wait=[n]
              wait up to n seconds for the spin up/down command to complete. Default is  to  return  immediately
              after the command was sent to the device.  Either repeat -w n times or set n to define the time to
              wait before to report a timeout.

       -l,--lock
              prevent removal of medium from device.

       -L,--unlock
              allow removal of medium from device.

       -I,--oldioctl
              use  legacy  ioctl interface instead of SG_IO to dialog with device (could not be supported on all
              platforms).  -e and -w are not allowed with this option.

       -v,--verbose=[n]
              verbose mode. Either repeat -v or set n accordingly to increase verbosity.  1  is  verbose,  2  is
              debug (dump SCSI commands and Sense buffer).

       -f,--force
              force spinning up/down the device even if it is in use.

       -n,--noact
              do nothing but check if the device is in use.

       -p,--proc
              use /proc/mounts instead of /etc/mtab to determine if the device is in use or not.

       device the  device is any name in the filesystem which points to a SCSI block device (sd, scd) or generic
              SCSI device (sg). See section below.

Oldkernelnamingconvention
       It is typically /dev/sd[a-z] , /dev/scd[0-9]* or /dev/sg[0-9]*.scsidevnamingconvention
       It is typically /dev/scsi/s[rdg]h[0-9]*-e????c?i?l?  or /dev/scsi/<aliasname>.devfsnamingconvention
       It is typically /dev/scsi/host[0-9]/bus[0-9]/target[0-9]/lun[0-9]/disc (same for cd and generic  devices)
       or  short  name /dev/sd/c[0-9]b[0-9]t[0-9]u[0-9] when devfsd "new compatibility entries" naming scheme is
       enabled.

scsiinfo(8), sg_start(8), sd(4), proc(5),

scsi-spin[-options...][device]