On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Richard Massey wrote:

> Just a thought,
> Do you have any MacOS software that puts idle drives to sleep??
> The installer and booter do not know how to wake up a sleeping drive as I
> discovered when I also received a string of "Error on SCSIWrite(), # 5"
> messages when first installing NetBSD as a novice (still a novice). It
> could get ugly if the drive was put to sleep in mid-install.

Weird! A sleeping drive certainly would mess things up.

But since we use the SCSI manager to talk to the drive, I'd have hoped
that it'd be smart enough to wake the drive up when we issue a READ or a
WRITE.

Take care,

Bill