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Hello,

> Many drives can do a delayed spin-up themselves, often something
> like <SCSI-ID> seconds of delay before the motor starts, so the
> startup current peaks are distributed. So ID 0 starts immediately,
> if you put the second disk on ID6, it starts after 6 seconds delay.

Or some don't spin up at all on power-up ( like my Barracudas ) and wait
for a START command which would be issued either by the firmware when
trying to boot or later by the kernel.

have fun
Michael

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