On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 06:40:48PM +0200, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote:
> > messages from the kernel drawing for your attention and not putting the
> > drive to sleep.
>
> The error message is natural, a drive put to sleep is put there
> permanently, since the drive is supposed to power down its interface
It still isn't an error, though, and linux could, if it were
better-than-neccessary, take this into account.
Linux doesn't bitch on spinned-down scsi disks at boot either, but
properly starts them.
> Since SCSI drives are only manually powered down, the Kernel is fine in
> this respect
"Fine" = "lacks any support". So just for me, that isn't fine. But it's
bearable ;)
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