From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Dec 26 03:25:31 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id DAA17608 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 03:25:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from Octopussy.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Octopussy.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.166.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id DAA17601 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 03:25:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (annexr2-43.slip.Uni-Koeln.DE) by Octopussy.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE with SMTP id AA14666 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 26 Dec 1996 12:25:24 +0100 Received: (from se@localhost) by x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id MAA01001; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 12:20:37 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 12:19:17 +0100 From: se@freebsd.org (Stefan Esser) To: joerg_wunsch@sax.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org (FreeBSD SCSI list), msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/scsi cd.c References: <199612250117.LAA21192@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199612251005.LAA16758@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.54-PL15 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199612251005.LAA16758@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Dec 25, 1996 11:05:03 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Dec 25, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: > Why do you want to have the disks spun up at probe time? IMHO, > issuing the START UNIT at open time would be sufficient. There's no Please make this: ONE (instead of A) START UNIT command ... There are drives that don't like to receive an START UNIT command while executing being in the process of executing some command. (This may happen, if you have tagged commands enabled and open the disk character devices, like eg. dump does ...) Regards, STefan