Sorry if I came off that way. I just meant to point out to the fellow
that IDE hard drives normally (always?) spin up by themselves at boot
time. It looked to me as though that was the occasion he was talking
about, because he said the kernel was checking for several drives in
sequence--something it does then. I used to use "hdparm -S", and drives
only spun up when they were needed for reading or writing data--something
that isn't normally done in a quick sequence ordered by device. If it is
at boot time, maybe what he wants--apart from a less sluggish drive--is a
way to have the IDE driver read from his fastest (at spinning up) drives
first, giving the slower ones a little more time to get moving.
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Trevor Johnson
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