On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Edward McKnight wrote:

> Jason,
> 
> I have Seagate and Quantum scsi disks, ~1G each. One of them, I'm pretty sure 
> it's the Quantum, spins up then down again during disk/scsi identification. I 
> don't consider it defective--I'm assuming that the driver is exercising 
> capabilities that the disk has. It spins up again a bit later and stays 
> spinning. 

Hm, I haven't heard that with the DEC or Quantum SCSI disks we have at
work, AHA controllers. Quite possibly though the controller might want to
see if the disk can do a sleep mode. I wouldn't expect this from an IDE
though.

Jason


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