Idea #9972: USB disk suspend & sleep support

Linux does not support sleep/suspend on MANY usb->sata/pata chipsets. There exists a patch to fix this: "scsi-idle for nslu2-linux" ***

Ubuntu should use/maintain the patch for those external cases where hdparm/sdparm/sg3_tools spindown commands do not work.


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http://handhelds.org/hypermail/oe/49/4973.html
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/FAQ/SpinDownUSBHarddisks
http://fredericiana.com/2005/12/16/nslu2-linux-usb-harddrive-spindown/