From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] i/o error: wrenwrite From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: <6790eed7dc818630a41741d19d179dff@vitanuova.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:58:24 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1076797a-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>> Are they set to spin up automatically when power is applied? >>I do not know. What are other options if I boot from it? > > it's usually selected by a jumper on the drive itself. But not the avarage ATA, at least not the ones I'm familiar with. Plus David makes it clear the system has booted at the time the error occurs, so unless the drive is actual _spun_down_... I imagine though it's the first write, although, again, you won't get the progress messages in that sequence unless the disk has been checked and, in the case of a power failure, it usually takes a while to get past the "check". ++L