Subject: Re: possible bug in sd.c
To: Mike Hibler <mike@cs.utah.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-hp300
Date: 03/22/1995 13:00:27
On Wed, 22 Mar 95 12:23:03 -0700 
 mike@cs.utah.edu (Mike Hibler) wrote:

 > The drive isn't spun up.  Some drives don't automatically spin up when you
 > power them on (though there is usually a jumper to enable this).  There is
 > a "start unit" SCSI command to do this.  This isn't done in the 300 driver.

It definitely spins up -- I can hear it...

 > Is it a command or data transfer that is hanging/failing?  I suppose the

Unsure...I'll know more when I can reboot the machine again (it's at 
home, I'm not, and I can't reboot it remotely as the disk won't 
configure...)

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