Controlling disk spin-up on boot .......

From: Thomas Leitner <tom_at_finwds01.tu-graz.ac.at>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 14:22:31 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi,

In about three hours time, I'll be installing a new ST39173W 9.1GB wide
disk in our Alpha running Digital Unix 4.0D (brand new patch kit #2
applied), using an IntraServer ITI3140 controller.

What I have in mind, is to set the "enable motor start" jumper on the
drive in order to delay the disk spin-up until the machine is booting. As
this is already the third drive in the box, this would cause the startup
load on the power-supply to be not so high.

So my question: Does Digital Unix send a "spin-up" SCSI command to every
disk device while booting? If no how can this be turned on?

Thanks a lot // Tom

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