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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] scsi-disk: removable hard disks support
 START/STOP
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:50:19 +0200
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Il 23/07/2012 18:44, Blue Swirl ha scritto:
>> > Support for START/STOP UNIT right now is limited to CD-ROMs.  This is wrong,
>> > since removable hard disks (in the real world: SD card readers) also support
>> > it in pretty much the same way.
> I remember vaguely tuning a set of large SCSI hard disks
> (non-removable) so that they all didn't start immediately at the same
> time (which could have burned out the PSU) but only with START UNIT
> command. I think Linux or maybe even the BIOS started the drives
> (nicely in sequence) before accessing the drive.

Yes, all disks do start/stop.  Removable disks support load and eject in
addition.  I'll fix the commit message.

Paolo