How do I spinup disk from power-up in standby ?

[Wojciech Puchar]

simply read any sector

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Dieter wrote:

> Western Digital SATA disk in "power-up in standby" mode.
> disk is connected to nforce4-ultra
> FreeBSD 7.0  amd64
>
> Google found that MirBSD's atactl man page has:
>
> puisspinup      Explicitly spins up the device if power-up in standby (puis)
>                mode is enabled.
>
> I can't find anything like this on FreeBSD.  (I checked 7.1 also)
> And the disk doesn't show up in dmesg.  It should be ad6,
> but there is no ad6 and no Western Digital or WD in dmesg.
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