[clue-tech] Fwd: Need a Linux device driver.

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Wed Oct 29 12:45:34 MDT 2008


David L. Anselmi wrote:
> So there's a utility I can use to spin down my USB hard drive.  I'll 
> have to look for one to power down a USB port.

On a whim I tried sdparm on my flash drive.  None of the commands did 
anything, except for eject, which caused the device node to disappear 
(udev's doing, I'm sure).  So that's interesting to know, although the 
light on the flash drive stayed on :-(

Dave


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