Thread: External USB hard drive not spinning down after 6.4 upgrade
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Old 1st December 2018
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The scsi(8) command is the analog for sd(4) devices. There's an example of a "spin down" command in the man page, which I just tested here with an external USB drive. It worked on this one.
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