[H-GEN] scsi drive won't spin up

Ewan Edwards Edwards_Ewan_B at cat.com
Wed Jan 29 20:27:09 EST 2003


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On Thursday 30 January 2003 09:42 am, Snowy Angelique Maslov aka 'Snowpony' 
wrote:

>
> Actually forgive me if I'm wrong - but don't some SCSI harddrives have a
> jumper pin for spinning up on start up?  You might want to check all the
> jumper pins to see if they are set correctly.  Just an idea.

Actually, yes you're quite correct.  Some drives do have that jumper settable 
feature.  Spinup on power on, or, wait for controller instruction to spinup.


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