From: Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel Startup Delay
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:02:57 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108211300040.23498-100000@terbidium.openservices.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <027001c12a5b$e5d29be0$160e10ac@hades>
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Mark Cuss wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am setting up a server with 4 SCSI hard disks, two of which I will jumper
> 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?
>
> Any hints are greatly appreciated.
>
> Mark
I thought that this was a function of the SCSI BIOS? I know that with the
Adaptec AHA-x940xx and AIC-78x0 you can tell the card/chip to spin up the
drives after individually-configurable delays, and then continue booting the
system once all the drives have spun up. Does your card/chip have a similar
feature?
--
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-21 17:03 UTC|newest]
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2001-08-21 16:11 ` Kernel Startup Delay Mark Cuss
2001-08-21 17:02 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams [this message]
2001-08-21 19:01 ` Colonel
2001-08-22 6:00 ` Jim Roland
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2001-08-21 16:26 ` Alan Cox
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