[6102] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: AHA-2940,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Burley)
Mon Mar 15 13:42:59 1999
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 18:08:36 +0100
From: Simon Burley <sjb@dneg.com>
To: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
CC: Kenneth Johansson <erakeon@kieraypc01.p.y.ki.era.ericsson.se>,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Kenneth Johansson wrote:
>
> > hmm so the error is that noone is turning it on again or is it that it fails when it tries
> > that.
>
> Yes, that's really a bug in the sd driver: when it sees NOT READY it
> should re-spin it up.
>
> However, the *original* bug is why on earth has the disk spun down ?
>
>
> Except the power that your tape drives takes away ...
>
I've seen a loose power connector on the back of the disk do exactly
this. It might run for, say, 12 hours and then spin down. Putting a new
connector on the cable from the psu fixed this in no time at all.
S.
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