[1784] in linux-scsi channel archive
SpinUp Patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Thu May 1 01:39:32 1997
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 22:36:29 -0700
From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Nicholas LeRoy had problems with a disk being spun up automatically when the
SCSI disk driver was loaded as a module, and for some reason there was code
that explicitly omitted doing the spin up. No one seems to know of any reason
not to perform a spin up if necessary, and this change resolves Nicholas'
problem, so it appears we should change this.
Leonard
--- linux/drivers/scsi/sd.c- Fri Feb 28 15:14:18 1997
+++ linux/drivers/scsi/sd.c Wed Apr 30 22:33:05 1997
@@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@
spintime = 0;
/* Spin up drives, as required. Only do this at boot time */
- if (!MODULE_FLAG){
+ /* Spinup needs to be done for module loads too. */
do{
retries = 0;
while(retries < 3)
@@ -1096,7 +1096,6 @@
else
printk( "ready\n" );
}
- } /* !MODULE_FLAG */
retries = 3;
do {
