Re: Waiting for disks to spin up

Oscar Molin <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:16:45 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sandpoint
Message-ID <CA+eLG8nn_iMA2dYN1O-fuzCY=j1FoJZ=qiG-iTe7jVQkDkheOA@mail.gmail.com>
Frank Wille will know. I had the exact same problem but with 4 disks
on my cs 407e and he made a special version for me that worked around
it.
Then he made a different change in the online code but I don't
remember if I ever tried that with all disks and I only have one disk
now.

/Oscar

2012/1/16 Julian Coleman <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
>
> When I reboot my DS207 (but not when powering on), it seems that the disks
> spin down and spin up again one after the other.  This causes altboot (and
> sometimes NetBSD) to only detect the first disk.  A work round for this is
> to add a delay when checking for disks, as per the attached patch.  However,
> I wondered if there was a better way to do this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> J
>
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