Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: SCSI spinup. | Date | Thu, 2 Dec 1999 23:22:30 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > > I think you need to catch any spinups at the point the read/write is about > > to be issued, or on an error return. > > Catching NOT_READY in rw_intr to me looked like the best way to do that. > But I just got told recent high end scsi drivers tend to bypass the > midlayer, so is there a more generic approach?
Those that bypass the midlayer are raid controllers. They also tend to do disk spin up/down themselves too.
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