Re: SCSI spinup.

Christoph Rohland (hans-christoph.rohland@sap.com)
02 Dec 1999 09:18:47 +0100


daniel.kobras@student.uni-tuebingen.de (Daniel Kobras) writes:

> Hi!
>
> I sent this message to linux-scsi a couple of days ago but unfortunately
> didn't arouse that much interest. However, since this one's pretty crucial
> for my work on noflushd, I'm trying linux-kernel as well. The bottom line
> is: Is the patch below save, and if no, under which conditions can it
> break?

I would be interested in a save and integrate scsi-idle version. But
please be careful. I broke two scsi-disks physically with scsi-idle
because it apparently tried to read or write to the disk while it was
not completely spun up. (At least this is what I concluded)

Christoph

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