On 06/05/10 03:49 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Currently, there's no way to tell whether staggered spin up is needed or drives are already spun up.
Perhaps by issuing a "CHECK POWER MODE" command? For many drives, a non-spinning drive is detectable from its IDENTIFY data. Cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html