Western Digital Data Lifeguard & Drive Spinning Down?

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So I'm having some problems with a RAID controller. I determined it is
basically a crapped out motherboard that is out of warranty.
So I have an Intel board on order.
While I'm waiting for the stuff to come on I figured I would run a
diagnostic on both drives.
Both are WD2500YS with firmware 20.06C06

My question is, when I go to run the diagnostic using the WD utility, when I
hit R to actually run the test; the drives spin down and spins back up.
Is that normal? It happened with both drives so I'm assumning the drives
are both OK.
 
Previously Justin said:
So I'm having some problems with a RAID controller. I determined it is
basically a crapped out motherboard that is out of warranty.
So I have an Intel board on order.
While I'm waiting for the stuff to come on I figured I would run a
diagnostic on both drives.
Both are WD2500YS with firmware 20.06C06
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My question is, when I go to run the diagnostic using the WD utility, when I
hit R to actually run the test; the drives spin down and spins back up.
Is that normal?
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Probably a spin-up time test.
It happened with both drives so I'm assumning the drives
are both OK.
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Well, at least you cannot conclude they are broken from
an operation supported by the drives.

Arno
 
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