Subject: Re: FAQ: Booting a 7300
To: Michael Lorenz <ml@rz.uni-potsdam.de>
From: John Franklin <franklin@elfie.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/12/2002 10:50:32
On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 08:39  AM, Michael Lorenz wrote:
>> Yes, i know. I'm asking a FAQ. My newly-acquired 7300 doesn't boot=20
>> straight
>> away into NetBSD, because the drive hasn't spun up. And I'm asking =
for
>> hints how to fix it.
> Hmm, have a close look at the harddisk - some ( notably IBM ) drives=20=

> have a jumper labeled "auto spinup" or "delay spinup" and so on. Play=20=

> with them.
> This is omething they inherited from their higher end cousins where=20
> such behavior was (is?) used to spin up large disk arrays step by step=20=

> and not all at once.

Is.  Spinning up all drives all in large disk arrays at once often=20
exceeds power available.

jf
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