This little tool is of equally little use right now as the SCSI layer
doesn't handle spun down disks gracefully enough. Brave souls might try
noflushd's SCSI support nevertheless, BUT ONLY WITH A KERNEL PATCH TO sd.c. 
Patches for several kernel versions are available in this directory. If you
don't know what a kernel patch is or how to apply it, you probably don't want
to use this feature yet. The patch actually is a cleaned up part of the quite
well-known scsi-idle patch. Unfortunately scsi-idle is also known for being not
100% rock solid. The failure cases are not well understood but it very likely 
isn't SMP-safe. You have been warned. The tiny tool scsi-startstop in this
directory will allow you to manually spin up and down your SCSI disks. Note 
that for spinup, scsi-startstop had better be in memory or on a different disk!

In short: This is testing area. Be careful!

Daniel.

Update: 
The patches provided here won't work on kernel versions > approx 2.3.35.
Contributions to an up-to-date version welcome! (Don't count on me, most
of my disks are IDE these days.)

