[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <kiia69-f8v.ln1 at news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch>
writes: 

> There was a way to link up RM05 disks so that if you switched them all on 
> at once they would only spin up one at a time.  The power draw of the 
> four we had spinning up at the same time was enough to trip the circuit 
> breaker.

On some disks there is a jumper one can set to determine the spin-up 
delay, usually some fixed number multiplied by the SCSI-ID.  Presumably 
this is for the same reason.