New -calm_drive mode "revoke"

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@ -805,13 +805,14 @@ the elsewise trustworthy table-of-content scan for those media.
To be in effect, the -rom_toc_scan setting has to be made before the -*dev
command which aquires drive and media.
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\fB\-calm_drive\fR "in"|"out"|"all"|"on"|"off"
\fB\-calm_drive\fR "in"|"out"|"all"|"revoke"|"on"|"off"
Reduce drive noise until it is actually used again. Some drives stay alert
for substantial time after they have been used for reading. This reduces
the startup time for the next drive operation but can be loud and waste
energy if no i/o with the drive is expected to happen soon.
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Modes "in", "out", "all" immediately calm down -indev, -outdev, resp. both.
Mode "revoke" immediately alerts both.
Mode "on" causes -calm_drive to be performed automatically after each -dev,
-indev, and -outdev. Mode "off" disables this.
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