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Re: scsi add-single-device

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc SCHAEFER)
Tue Aug 8 15:09:02 2000

Date:	Tue, 8 Aug 2000 20:48:25 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
To:	Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetopia.net>
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On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Ricky Beam wrote:

> Technically, one could argue the kernel should issue a STOP START UNIT command
> for you.  A command was sent to the drive that needs it to be spinning (and

Yes, infact if you apply the scsi-idle patch, I think it does. However,
last time I used that was in 2.0.27 ...

> the kernel is assuming it is spinning??? is there any state tracking?)  Of
> course, one could argue the kernel should only do what it's told...

Also, on bootup (on sd_mod insertion), disks are spun up.



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