On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 07:28:59PM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: > for SATA systems, I get the impression that the direction is not yet settled. FWIW, one of the important advances from the SATA-II board was the inclusion of staggered spin-up. There's most info on the details at sata-io.org. I do not know how commonly implemented the feature is in devices that claim to support SATA-II specifications. -- Ross Vandegrift ross@xxxxxxxxxxxx "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell." --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html