> "Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler" <nicoya@apia.dhs.org> said:
> At 10:12 AM -0500 10/10/02, Steven Grunza wrote:
> >I've run out of disk space too many times and have added a 9GB Cheetah
> >drive to my work system but I'm getting a strange "drive offline" message
> >and "Operation not supported by device" messages.  Any one have any
clues?
> [...]
>
> Is the drive spinning up? Almost all drives will have a jumper to disable
> spinup-on-poweron. (alternatley, there may not be enough power available
at
> boot to spin up the drive, cheetahs are very power-hungry drives)
>
> With that jumper enabled, the host will have to sent a start unit command
> to the drive to get the platters spinning before any other operations can
> take place.
>
> Some OSes will automatically send a start unit command when the drive is
> offline, and some won't. I don't know which category NetBSD falls into, as
> there's no real 'correct' behaviour in this situation.

In my experience (1.5.2) NetBSD sends START UNIT to each
drive during the probe() for each device.  The SPARC should
send START UNIT to whichever drive you are booting from
(else NetBSD never gets a chance to probe() for the others  :> )

Also make sure entries exist for the device under /dev

--don