🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <30FC48A3.25FE17F1@gumby.syr.edu> "J. Theodore Cox" <jtcox@gumby.syr.edu> writes:
>I have an adaptec SLIM SCSI pcmcia card, a DELL laptop Latitude
>XP, and a Seagate 1480N hard drive, with an active terminator.
>The drive works on the laptop with DOS with the Adaptec drivers
>aspidisk.sys and aspi2dos.sys.  
>
>Using linux, the drive is "recognized", but fails to "spin up".
>And hence is not usable.  If I first get the drive to "spin up"
>under DOS, and then reboot into linux without shutting down the
>drive, then the drive works with linux.  The linux pcmcia-cs
>driver is aha152x_cs.  
>
>I have checked the Seagate specs for the drive (on their WWW
>site), it doesn't look like their is a jumper setting to make the
>drive "spin up" when it powers on.  If so, I would just set it.
>
>I should point out that the drive works on my desktop linux
>system which has a future domain card in it.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
This is obviously the APM drive spin down feature.  To save power.  LINUX
didn't have NAY such features until some 1.3 version.  I BELIEVE it has the
drive spindown feature as well.  Get it, and  try it out!  Otherwise, wait
for a patch.

It isn't a problem with the drive OR the PCMIA card.  The card can be often
PROGRAMMED to turn off the drive after so much non-use.  You COULD try disabling
the spindown feature through BIOS!

Steve