Hey,

> > sd0 at scsibus1 target 0 lun 0: <DEC, RZ1CB-BA (C) DEC, LYE0> disk fixed
> > sd0: drive offline
> 
> If the drive is not configured to not auto-spin at power up, it'll only
> spin up if you attemps a read or write access. Does e.g. disklabel sd0
> make it spin ?

that must be a different problem: I have that message on my BOOT drive,
that is, the one the kernel already was loaded from and it is spun up
for sure.

-R