Subject: Re: SparcStation LX + SCSI Disks that require "Send Start Unit Command"
To: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@burghcom.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/29/2001 18:15:10
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 11:58:13AM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if OpenBoot 2.10 have a facility to send a spin up
> command to scsi disks on the internal/external esp?  I've got an external
> Sun disk pack (2x2) that I'd like to setup RAIDFrame on.  Probe-scsi-all
> hangs.  The disks spin up fine in a "AdapCrap" 29160, but I have a feeling
> that this box was originally attached to a SunRAID controller (just a
> little bit more advanced than an LX or a Wind0z3 box.)
> 
> In the mean time, I'm going to see about disabling that feature in the
> jumpers.

This doesn't exactly anserw your question, but NetBSD will spin up the disks.
So if your boot disk isn't in the disk pack, you won't have trouble
using it with NetBSD

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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