At 11:16 AM 97/11/15 -0500, you wrote:
> > The most amazing thing is being in a real
computer room (i.e. dozens
> > of 14" drives) when the power suddenly goes *off*. The silence is
> > astonishing.
>
> What would be even MORE amazing is when the power comes back ON a second
> later, with all the power switches still on, and everything tries to spin
> up at once...
> Or is there some safeguard against that?
A lot of mainframe/mini drives have a configuration option called "spindle
delay" that allows for a settable delay between power on and spin up. One
sets the drives to spin up individually rather than all at once.
Kevin
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Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD
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