Il 23/07/2012 18:44, Blue Swirl ha scritto: >> > Support for START/STOP UNIT right now is limited to CD-ROMs. This is >> > wrong, >> > since removable hard disks (in the real world: SD card readers) also >> > support >> > it in pretty much the same way. > I remember vaguely tuning a set of large SCSI hard disks > (non-removable) so that they all didn't start immediately at the same > time (which could have burned out the PSU) but only with START UNIT > command. I think Linux or maybe even the BIOS started the drives > (nicely in sequence) before accessing the drive.
Yes, all disks do start/stop. Removable disks support load and eject in addition. I'll fix the commit message. Paolo
