On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Pedro G. Gonnet wrote:

> > What do you mean by "up"? I am not a specialist of "low-level SCSI".
> 
> neither am i...;) if when you start up the disk you don't hear the
> "plunk! wrrrrrr..." but just the sound of the ventilator, your disk
> isn't "up", i.e. running. since the disk i have is about eight years
> old, it's quite audible...

Then you need to send the disk a scsi start command, or change its jumpers
to automatically spin up. :-)

Most drive manufacturers have jumper setting son their web pages, even for
old drives.

Take care,

Bill