From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ross@lug.udel.edu (Ross Vandegrift) Subject: Re: Selective spin-up Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:46:32 -0500 Message-ID: <20060123014632.GA9539@lug.udel.edu> References: <43D32E3A.4020508@wasp.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Hahn Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 07:28:59PM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: > for SATA systems, I get the impression that the direction is not yet settled. FWIW, one of the important advances from the SATA-II board was the inclusion of staggered spin-up. There's most info on the details at sata-io.org. I do not know how commonly implemented the feature is in devices that claim to support SATA-II specifications. -- Ross Vandegrift ross@lug.udel.edu "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell." --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37