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Subject: Re: Power savings on USB Hard drives 
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Hi Kevin,

At 01:27 03/12/2007, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>Almost all external USB drives use umass and are not handled as ATA but
>as SCSI. As such, camcontrol is the tool that should probably be
>used, but I have no such devices and I don't know what the appropriate
>command might be.
In fact, this is more compatible with whatI read.
camcontrol is used to control some USB devices, but I did not saw 
some things about power management + camcontrol...

>Asking on usb@ might provide the needed information.
?

Thanks

Brgrds