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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: HD spindown
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.024529.14554@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 02:45:29 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <1992Dec23.192040.4998@gallant.apple.com> <1992Dec25.221851.6049@eng.umd.edu> <1992Dec28.212732.10490@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
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- In article <1992Dec28.212732.10490@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) writes:
- >
- >In fact, SCSI Parker sends a SCSI stop out to whatever drives support
- >it. It's kind of spooky to have a 300Mbyte Priam full-high, which
- >normally shakes the table, spin down! But this makes it mokre likely
- >that it's going to be properly stored for shipment...
-
- My Imprimis 94171-308 (no Seagate number), while it does support SCSI
- Start to start the drive spinning (assuming the jumper is
- set to not start it automatically at power-up), ignores SCSI Stop.
- Fortunately, it doesn't shake the table.
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