Re: [opensuse] Opensuse doesn't wait long enough for the disks to spin up before trrying to configure raid

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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