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Date:      Thu, 1 Nov 2001 22:53:53 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, DAVE CUSHING <DMCUSHING@cambrianc.on.ca>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AlphaServer 400
Message-ID:  <20011101225353.B9563@cicely8.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <20011101200836.A15233@freebie.xs4all.nl>
References:  <01Nov1.133922est.119057@charon.cambrianc.on.ca> <15329.39897.847099.976000@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20011101200836.A15233@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 08:08:36PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:00:41PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> > Some older DEC disks don't spin up automatically.  I can't remember if
> > we send start-unit command to spin them up or not.  If we don't, that
> > might explain things.
> 
> SRM does on SHOW DEVICE. I'm pretty sure the SCSI/CAM layer sends
> a spinup as well.

It does.
Most of my drives a configured not to spin up themself.

But this one is broken:
<DEC RZ55     (C) DEC 0900>
It doesn't tell the right reason for not being ready so CAM don't
send a start command.

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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