Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 23:50:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Cc: elrond@imladris.frmug.fr.net (Bertrand Petit) Subject: Re: Two NCR adaptaters and spin up. Message-ID: <199609272150.XAA12175@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199609250048.CAA29302@imladris.frmug.fr.net> from Bertrand Petit at "Sep 25, 96 02:48:40 am"
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As Bertrand Petit wrote: > Boths of the SCSI busses are loaded with hard drives with the > auto spinup feature disabled. Upon system powerup, devices on the > first bus are spined up by the NCR bios: the second adaptater is > leaved aside. > > I decided, to correct this to add sinup code in the scsi code. > I've choosen to add this in sd.c sd_get_parans() function. I may be > wrong at that point. There was already code to do this, but slightly at the wrong location (a few lines too low). Have a look at the `od' driver from -current (make a side-by-side comparision), the spinup code does work there. I'm using it all the time (the `od' driver has an option to spindown the drive after unmounting the filesystem). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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