On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:29:50PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> It's not related to esiop, but to the scsipi mid-layer, so you should
> have the same behavior on both systems.  It's possible that on i386 the
> adapter's BIOS does the spin up, though.
> The drive should spin up on first access, if it doesn't it's a bug.

Ah, yes - my memory is not as good as it used to be :) Now that you mention
it, it was actually the Adaptec's BIOS that was spinning up the disks
rather than the ahc(4) driver.

-mj
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