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Subject: Re: Kernel Startup Delay
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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:26:59 +0100 (BST)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> 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