At 1:01 AM -0700 6/16/99, Pedro G. Gonnet wrote:
>> What do you mean by "up"? I am not a specialist of "low-level SCSI".
>
>neither am i...;) if when you start up the disk you don't hear the
>"plunk! wrrrrrr..." but just the sound of the ventilator, your disk
>isn't "up", i.e. running. since the disk i have is about eight years
>old, it's quite audible...

"Up" means the disk is spinning.  The spindle motor uses a lot of the power
in a disk so stopping it while not in use is a "good thing" for laptops.
The bad things happen if it won't start when it's supposed to.  As someone
noted there are jumper options for this sort of thing.

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