:Hi Emiel. : :> antiquated SCSI peripherals that actually do need 15 seconds ;) ) If yes, :> I'll just shut up about this. :Well an old SGI Octane2 each with several (2 or 3) SGI "Vaults" (external SCSI drives) :need definitely more than 15 seconds. "Antiquated"? Maybe. But I know :of several (about 50) of such configurations in a productive environment. : :On the other hand I think you can lower the time to 5 seconds with "modern" :equipment ... : :Andreas.
The big problem that we had in the 'early' days (circa 1995) was with SCSI tape drives. I can well believe the SGI Vaults had a problem. The problem isn't really device initialization time, its that old SCSI devices often wouldn't even 'appear' on the SCSI bus until after a lengthy initialization period. Modern devices appear on the SCSI bus pretty much immediately and simply tell the host to hold on a minute if queried before they are finished initializing themselves (spinning up spindles, self-check, closing the CDROM tray, etc). -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>