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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:52:37 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        picapau@minmei.iqm.unicamp.br, alpha@freebsd.org, scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SCSI disk problems on AS1000
Message-ID:  <20000329205237.E2044@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <14562.4832.203053.753476@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 09:32:24AM -0500
References:  <20000325181342.A88910@minmei.iqm.unicamp.br> <14557.27001.718759.711008@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20000329092158.A96147@minmei.iqm.unicamp.br> <14562.2571.201291.426577@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20000329111836.A10213@minmei.iqm.unicamp.br> <14562.4832.203053.753476@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 09:32:24AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Andre Severo writes:
>  > 
>  > My apologies for such an obscure sentence =)
>  > 
>  > What I meant by that was that I had to use the command "exerc"
>  > on the srm monitor prior to the boot procedure to sort of 
>  > "warm up" the disks.
>  > 
>  > Without this "warm up exercise" for a few seconds the disks are detected but 
>  > their size is not assessed (this failure is what I meant by
>  > "taken to be offline"). 
> 
> 
> Hmm.. Older DEC disks tend to not spin up when they're powered on.

These are the older RZxx disks. The 'multivendor variant' of the same drives
(SWX*-*) are set for staggered spinup (spin up delay based on SCSI target
ID).

W/

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Wilko Bulte 			Arnhem, The Netherlands	  
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