From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: sdparm cannot start or stop SATA disks
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:11:38 -0400
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Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> sdparm uses the START STOP UNIT SCSI command to start
> and stop (spin up and spin down) SCSI devices.
> Currently libata does not implement that SCSI command.
> [Hopefully Jeff contradicts me.]

Correct.

Someone should submit a libata patch for this!

	Jeff