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[ka1ifq <ka1ifq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 30 August 2008 03:31:53 pm Mike Myers wrote:
> I don't think that's going to fix it.  The way the libata driver works is
> that it spins the disks up one at a time (staggered spinup).  Just powering
> the system on will not cause the disks to spin up.  After the start of the
> boot, / is mounted and the sata driver begins doing all of it's work,
> finding the PMP's on the SATA ports, and then probing each PMP, id'ing the
> disks and spinning them up, etc...  So this is all happening way after the
> boot is started.
>
> thx
> mike
 Is there no way to force the drives to spin up when power is applied, jumper 
option perhaps..
Mike
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