Re[2]: Everyone's favorite offtopic topic

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:45 29-7-2001 +0100, Keith Matthews wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 12:23:36 +0200 Seth Mos <Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>> 
> wrote:
> > 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).
Depends on disk manufacturer. Most are default to spin on boot.
In raid arrays this is often disabled. I believe IDE disks don't support 
delayed start.
So it's with scsi you can and with IDE you can't.

Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.