Viswas, > As a part of drive discovery, driver will initaite the drive spin up. > If all drives do spin up together, it will result in large power > consumption. To reduce the power consumption, driver provide an option > to make a small group of drives (say 3 or 4 drives together) to do the > spin up. The delay between two spin up group and no of drives to spin > up (group) can be programmed by the customer in seeprom and driver > will use it to control the spinup. Please implement this in libsas as several people have suggested. Thanks! -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
