Re: Kernel Startup Delay

Alan Cox
2001-08-21T16:24:12Z

> to have a delayed spin up as to not bake the power supply. These two drives
> will contain a striping RAID. I am concerned that the kernel will load off
> of the other drives and attempt to start this RAID before the disks have
> even spun up - is there a way to have the kernel delay its startup for a
> certain number of seconds while all the drives spin up?

The kernel scsi code issues test-unit-ready commands and will (should 8)) do
the right things and wait for the drives to spin up.

Alan