On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 06:00:26PM -0500, John Klos wrote:
> >>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 ?
> 
> It begins to spin at poweron. This is the boot drive, and yes, it works 
> both before and after the scan says it's offline.

Hum, at one time there was an issue with the code dealing with mode page 
in scsipi that caused this with some disks, but I though it was fixed some
time ago ...

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