Hi, I've noticed something strange as I've build and tested vanilla 2.6.20.3 for my Sparc Ultra-2: one of my hard disks wasn't spinning up. It was jumpered in a way where it would require a host command for spinning up. This ran OK with 2.6.14, which I had on that box before, though. [SMP kernel, 2 CPUs, 2 disks and one CD-ROM attached to the on-board esp SCSI, framebuffer and HME 4port ethernet SBUS card] I simply changed the jumpering and all was OK, disk spun up, filesystem got mounted, everything OK, but I wasn't really satisfied. I tried a very similar kernel config on my E250 (with make oldconfig), which I knew had some drives jumpered that way, too. Similar, because the E250 uses two SymbiosLogic 875 SCSI on-board hosts. The drives spun up without any problem. Now to the questions: does that mean that the low-level driver fires the motor start command? Or is that left to the generic sd driver and the esp driver simply fails to deliver the status of the drive to the upper layer or something like that? As the drives of the E250 spun up OK, I don't think that this is an intendend change of behaviour, but I really would like to debug this further. TIA for all hints and pointers, Uli -- Dipl. Inf. Ulrich Teichert|e-mail: Ulrich.Teichert@xxxxxx Stormweg 24 |listening to: Single (Hushpuppies), Pay The Cobra 24539 Neumuenster, Germany|(The Bellrays), Ne Me Touch Pas (Opération S) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
