RE: Re[2]: Everyone's favorite offtopic topic

["Steven Tower" <tower@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > If you think about using 7200RPM disks you better start looking for 
> > multiple 400W powersupply's. IDE disks tend to have the problem to
all 
> > start to spin up at boot. Scsi does this when asked to :-)
>
> Only if specifcally configured to do so I believe. Mine have always
> come to auto spin-up on power-up and needed reconfiguring (IBM
> Ultrastar etc).

Did you actually find a solution to have them power up in sequence or at
least on a delay?

(Sorry for continuing the thread, I just ordered 2 3ware controllers
with IBM Deskstar drives 4 each)

Steven