> You still run across the problem that the disks must be spun up at boot
> time to read the partition table.
>
>
> Can someone point me at the existing broken patches that were alluded
> to on sunsite? I would at least like to see if this is a useful
> starting point.
>
> -Eric
FWIW, I've *killed* a couple of drives by doing an idle spindown on my BBS.
One in particular--it worked ok for years of 24x7. Worked ok for months in
the BBS, also 24x7. Then I added a 2 hour idle spindown. Within a few
months--it would no longer spin up unless I shake it. Evidently, being
spundown for extended periods of time, with power still on caused the
dreaded "stiction" problem. Granted, this was an old drive (an 80MB Quantum
SCSI), but still.........
So be VERY wary.
-30- Ray