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Re: SCSI disk SPIN-UP on pwr-up ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rik Faith)
Tue May 23 18:33:01 1995
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: faith@cs.unc.edu (Rik Faith)
Date: 23 May 1995 21:54:52 GMT
In article <9505191357.ZM25227@aib.com>, eric@aib.com (Eric Youngdale) writes:
|> On May 19, 1:07pm, Rob Janssen wrote:
|> > Who added this spin-up code? Did it work?
|>
|> I added it, but I never had a way of testing it. Some people
|> reported that it worked - my guess is that if the sense code is
|> UNIT_ATTENTION, we just need to retry the TEST_UNIT_READY.
And I think I debugged the code and sent you patches. I have one disk in
my system that I leave spun down, and the spin-up code in the standard
kernels has worked on this disk for a long time (probably for well over a
year).
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Rik Faith: faith@cs.unc.edu
"Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses." -- Richard P. Gabriel
