Nuitari posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
excerpted below,  on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:36:39 -0500:

> Yes, although that a lot of factory default settings for scsi hard drives
> have a Delayed start option of 10s * scsi ID and / or until the start
> command is received so that the power supply doesn't get hammered.

Indeed.  I was giving that as a worst-case, however, and in any case, I'm
not sure SATA, which is what I'm using (don't know about her, she says
PCI Promise controller, which hints SATA to me, but doesn't specify), does
that delayed stuff. Does anyone know if it does? I'd assume not, otherwise.

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