[SunRescue] Faster disk?

[Robert Rose]

Hi all,

While not directly related to sun rescue as such, I am appealing to the
vast wealth experience from the list members:

I tried replacing the disk (Seagate ST32430N = "Hawk 2LP" 5400RPM) in my
Indy (hi Mike N) that's getting really noisy with the disk out of my LX
(IBM DORS-32160 = "ES" 5400RPM) but the IBM disk wouldn't spin up fast
enough.  From a cold start, the Indy got through it's POST, poked the
disk and complained (mentioned checking cables etc.) a quick tap of the
reset button and it got through to the point of telling me it couldn't
find sash (not surprising really).  Power it off, wait 1 minute, power
back on and it complains about the disk again.

I've checked the obvious things, it's the only thing on the SCSI bus,
it's jumpered for auto-start, parity is enabled and termination is not. 
It mightn't help that I've just upgraded to a faster CPU (200MHz R4400),
but I'm not even going to consider going back to the slower CPU to even
test the IBM disk.

End result is that I'm looking at obtaining a >1Gb disk that will spin
up faster than the IBM.  I'd consider using one of my new IBM 9Gb
Ultra160 disks, but they seem even slower to spin up, probably because
they're 10K RPM, and I don't need 9Gb in the Indy.  Could the IBM disks
be particularly slow?

Maybe someone can point me towards a brand & model of disk that they are
confident would be up to the task?

thanks all,

Robert.