On some drives, there is a jumper to disable this feature.  On others,
you can send a scsi command of some sort to permanently disable this.
I have no idea about that one.

>The generic SCSI code (which is now used by the SPARC port, in addition
>to the i386, Amiga, etc.) issues a SCSI `start' command, which should
>cause the drive to spin up.  Unfortunately, it doesn't wait and will
>probably time out too quickly on the next command.  There needs to be a
>loop that polls and waits several times for a total span of, say, 15
>seconds.
>
>

--Michael

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