Re: Everyone's favorite offtopic topic

["Bernhard R. Erdmann" <be@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 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).

IBM's SCSI disks usually have a jumper for that purpose (auto spin
enable).