Re: Jaz Drive modification?

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bguenter@rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de (Boris Guenter) wrote:

>Greetings! Perhaps the one or the other GS owner who also owns a Jaz drive
>and a RamFast SCSI can help me with the only flaw of that thing when
>it is connected to a gs. When it is not used for more than 30 minutes,
>it goes to sleep position and when I don't notice that immediately,
>my current application may crash. Very annoying!
>
>Is there a way to disable the auto-sleep feature so that I can use it
>as a permanent work disk?

You have asked a common question, which also afflicts
Zip drives.

There is a solution for Apple High Speed SCSI card owners,
the Tulin drivers sold by some ex-Tulin employee on
CompuServe.

For RamFAST users, there is no current solution.

One idea that has been thrown around in the past has been
the creation of a init or desk accessory that reads something
off the disk at set intervals before the drive goes into sleep
position, thus resetting the clock.  Nothing has come of that,
however.  Unless you want to write such an init or desk
accessory.  ;-)