XPost: uk.comp.os.linux   
   From: usenet@andyburns.uk   
      
   Java Jive wrote:   
      
   > from the sound, I was suspicious that the drives are only powered up   
   > when the kernel loads the driver, and then the driver almost immediately   
   > expects them to be present, which would mean that this ploy wouldn't   
   > work.  However, I was game to try it, as I didn't think it could do any   
   > harm, but, as I feared, it didn't work.  The delay comes long after this   
   > point, and too late to affect things.   
      
   A wild thought (which I can't test as I no longer run openWRT so no   
   u-boot device) add the normal kernel as a crash kernel, let the first   
   kernel boot and spin the drives up too late ... then find a way to crash   
   it, so the crash kernel starts up affer the drives are spinning?   
      
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