>> What do you mean by "up"? I am not a specialist of "low-level SCSI".
>
>neither am i...;) if when you start up the disk you don't hear the
>"plunk! wrrrrrr..." but just the sound of the ventilator, your disk
>isn't "up", i.e. running. since the disk i have is about eight years
>old, it's quite audible...

OK.

I presume it's "up" (spinning) because the disk is not an oldy one, it's an
IBM DORS-32160 2 Go!
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