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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: the START UNIT command
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.070847.1699@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 7 Dec 90 07:08:47 GMT
Organization: Home System (One of the Eternal Champions); Eagan, MN, 55123-2507, USA
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I am trying to implement power sequencing of drives in a scsi (st01) disk
driver and have run into a few problems.  At first, I couldn't get the drives
to respond to my command -- all they did was sit there flickering their front
panel LEDs after the command was sent and the drive was pretty much unusable.

So, eventually, i tried putting in a delay after the command was sent and that
seemed to work on one drive (wren iv) but the other drive (wren iii) seems to
not want to respond.  I *was* able, at one time, to get the wren iii to start
but i can't get it to do it any more.  Sigh.  Neither drive will allow me to
stop the spindle.  Are there any tricks to this?  A certain amount of delay?
Always look for a disconnect, etc????

derek

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Derek Terveer						det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG
Minnesota Field Hockey Association,  North Central Section
University of Minnesota Women's Lacrosse,  Midwest District