> I notice you have an HP drive.  When using an HP97560 I found that unless I
> jumpered it to auto-spinup then it refused to respond to the mode sense and
> fell over at this point (although I don't recall a "cmd fail").  The SCSI
> driver issues a START UNIT to the drive (and I know this works for DEC
> drives) but the HP drive barfed before that point.

Sorry, I forgot to mention this was with ISA 154[02][BC] controllers.

- David B.

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