piscsi VS hd-idle

The ultimate setup is to get an Uthernet II card for your IIgs and connect to a netatalk file server via AFPBridge. The easiest way to set up a netatalk file server is on a Raspberry Pi using PiSCSI software. Your vintage Macs, modern Macs, and IIgs can all transfer files to and from the server.

PiSCSI is a good solution for macs that don’t have built-in networking as it can emulate a network card as well as HD and CD.

Best bet is probably getting a PiSCSI. It’s a modern Raspberry Pi-based device that emulate many devices, including hard drives but also an Ethernet adapter. I also have mine set up to run an AFP server that I can connect to from my modern Mac to transfer over, then retrieve them from my vintage Mac.

Eh... I had many, many battles with parallel SCSI. However, once active terminators became widely available and affordable (late 90s-ish) it was practically plug&play (just mind the ID switches)

The trickier bit would be to find one of those old SCSI-attached ethernet devices (Asanté, DaynaPort, EtherMac, ...) since they're coveted items in the retro scene. Although it looks like at least PiSCSI can emulate a DaynaPort https://github.com/PiSCSI/piscsi/wiki/Dayna-Port-SCSI-Link

https://github.com/PiSCSI/piscsi is your friend; I also use it on my alphas and vaxen.

Get a RaSCSI and connect it up to the internet!

What hard drives are you using? Some don't like the hdparm function which is what I believe OMV/Debian use to govern hd spindown. If you're on Seagate Exos drives, for example, those drives don't work with hdparm. I had to use hd-idle for mine: https://github.com/adelolmo/hd-idle

If on Linux, check out hd-idle. I use it currently for also a 15min spin down (will rethink this when setting up a new server soon), but it can also be used to disable it entirely

But I noticed now, that hd-idle can spindown the drive, which I don't really understand, because I thought they all use the same API

You could try hd-idle: https://github.com/adelolmo/hd-idle

I tried to use hdparm once and I believe it killed 1 of my drives. Then I tried this: https://github.com/adelolmo/hd-idle It spins my hdds down property without jacking the load cycle count up. I managed to cut the power consumption of my NAS from 30w to just 14w by spinning the backup drive down.

Had the same problem, I solved it with this tool: https://github.com/adelolmo/hd-idle

I also saw this program the other day which can be useful for external hard drives: hd-Idle.

Have a look at hd-idle. It's the only reliable way, works with all drives and I have been using it for a few years now: https://github.com/adelolmo/hd-idle

I have the sonarr/radarr metadata/config on an SSD while the media files stay on rotating disks. I want the disks to be on standby for as long as possible. I am using the hd-idle software on linux to put disks to sleep.