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How to Get Fibre Adapter to Send Start Unit Command to Drives?
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| How do you configure a Qlogic 2200F to send the start unit command to
attached hard drives? We are exposing a SCSI disk to the QLogic through a
fibre channel bridge, and the drive is not starting up after insertion.
The Windows 2000 host computer needs to boot this disk, so I need to find a
way to configure the QLogic to issue the start unit command as soon as it
initializes on startup of the computer.
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Will
Internet: westes AT earthbroadcast.com
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| Rob Turk 2005-05-29, 2:45 am |
| "Will" <DELETE_westes@earthbroadcast.com> wrote in message
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> How do you configure a Qlogic 2200F to send the start unit command to
> attached hard drives? We are exposing a SCSI disk to the QLogic through
> a
> fibre channel bridge, and the drive is not starting up after insertion.
> The Windows 2000 host computer needs to boot this disk, so I need to find
> a
> way to configure the QLogic to issue the start unit command as soon as it
> initializes on startup of the computer.
>
> --
> Will
> Internet: westes AT earthbroadcast.com
You won't have much luck with that from the HBA, but would a small utility
that sends a Start Unit command be suitable? I can write one for you in no
time. Send me private e-mail if you're interested (watch the spam trap).
Alternatively, since you are using SCSI disks, most of them have a jumper to
auto-start the drive on power-up. If it's OK for all disks to power up all
the time then you should use that.
Rob
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