Short: Noise saver for SCSI harddrives Author: fjrei@kbsaar.saar.de (Franz-Josef Reichert) Uploader: fjrei kbsaar saar de (Franz-Josef Reichert) Type: disk/misc Architecture: m68k-amigaos TITLE QuietSCSI VERSION 1.1 (20.10.95) AUTHOR Franz-Josef Reichert fjrei@kbsaar.saar.de DESCRIPTION Can you sleep in the same room when your computer is on? I can not! The harddisks make too much noise. Well, the power supply fan makes noise, too. But since I got a temperature controlled model, I can stand it much better. And there's another problem. The power led. Yes, it's so bright that I can read books! Speaking of SCSI harddisks, there is a mechanism to switch the motor off. It will just stop to spin as if you switched your computer off. But the drive is not dead. It's just q-u-i-e-t. It won't allow you to read or write data, though. But the controller electronic on the harddisk is still alive, and it might get a command to restart the drive at any time. Then it will behave just as if you switched your computer on. The motor will spin up again, and the drive will be ready to read or write data. This little program does exactly this. It monitors all read and write accesses to the drive. It also monitors all input events. If there is inactivity for a certain period of time, it will spin down the drive motor and dim the power led. If the next command arrives, it will spin up the motor and switch to led back to bright. REQUIREMENTS A SCSI harddisk HOST NAME Any AmiNet site DIRECTORY /pub/aminet/disk/misc FILENAME quietscsi11.lha FILESIZE 8980 bytes PRICE Giftware, small donation appreciated. DISTRIBUTION freely distributable, anybody is hereby encouraged to include it in freely distributable software libraries. -- Best regards, Franz-Josef Reichert GERMANY, fjrei@kbsaar.saar.de Kuchlinger Strasse 13 FON: +49(0)6805/218100 66271 Kleinblittersdorf FAX: +49(0)6805/218101