On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Marc Gutschner wrote:

> Since it may take some time for the SCSI-code on the VAXstations to be
> fixed I thought of putting this big and hairy (:-)) RZ55 to good use on
> my HP9000/375. Since the RZ55 won't spin up by it self this seems
> impossible. I remember some mysterious chantings (:-)) about an utility
> called "rzspin" or "rzspinup" that will modify some values in the SCSI
> mode pages to allow the drive to spin-up on power-on. My searches using
> Archie or Altavista came up with just one site that had something like
> that - but that site won't allow anonymous ftp :-(

I think many (most?) SCSI drives have a jumper which can be used to select
spin-up upon powering them on.  I'm not sure if the RZ55 matches to some
other manufacturer's drive (maybe Seagate?).  But if it does, and you can
find out which one it is, then you may be able to track down which jumper
needs to be set to cause the drive to spin up when it's powered on.

-brian.
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