On Nov 18, 11:58am, matthew green wrote:
> now).  this generally causes fsck to fail cuz it can't find the
> partition on that disk, and then i type /sbin/reboot at the prompt,
> and this time it works.  it seems as if the rz driver is not giving
> the disk long enough to spin up?  it only happens when the drive is
> not spun up before the boot begins.

  Try the following patch and see if it helps.

Michael


Index: rz.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/arch/pmax/dev/rz.c,v
retrieving revision 1.28.4.6
diff -u -r1.28.4.6 rz.c
--- rz.c	1998/11/07 00:10:52	1.28.4.6
+++ rz.c	1998/11/18 05:14:58
@@ -344,6 +344,7 @@
 			rzstart(sc->sc_cmd.unit);
 			if (biowait(&sc->sc_buf))
 				return (0);
+			DELAY(1000);
 			continue;
 		}
 	again:

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Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA