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From: Adam David <adam@veda.is>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/scsi scsi_base.c sd.c
In-Reply-To: <199710120854.BAA02393@freefall.freebsd.org> from Joerg Wunsch at "Oct 12, 97 01:54:49 am"
To: joerg@FreeBSD.ORG (Joerg Wunsch)
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:01:59 +0000 (GMT)
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>   Instead, call scsi_start_unit() once in sd_attach(), so in case the
>   drive has been configured to `remote start', it will spin up there.

makes sense.

>   (If it has spun down later, it must have been because of administrator
>   action (scsi(8)) anyway.)

The bt (44x) controller spins down disks when it stops taking commands.
It would be nice to somehow recover from this without rebooting, but that
is obviously elsewhere.

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Adam David <adam@veda.is>