Re: Need help with zip drive

[bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major)]

Randy Shackelford <shack@io.frii.com> wrote:

> In article <19971025152535172408@slip129-37-106-113.wa.us.ibm.net>,
> B.J. Major <bjblackbear@ibm.net> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >Randy, this simply isn't so with my Performa setup.  If I don't have my
> >external SCSI drive fully spun up *before* turning the CPU on that
> >contains an internal IDE drive, the external drive's driver won't be
> >read and that disk will be invisible.  I *know* this because the
> >external has a Silverlining driver and its splash screen appears on the
> >monitor almost the second the CPU is powered up.  I don't know what the
> >reason, but I have always found that external SCSI drives (new or old)
> >take a few seconds longer to completely spin up than internal ones or
> >IDE drives.
> 
> Yep I dunno about that IDE stuff since all my Macs date from the days when
> performance was the bottom line, although it cost some healthy $. But the 1
> gig DEC internal and external 2 gig Quantum work great like I was saying. I
> don't know where you get the idea that a given drive will take longer to
> spin up as an external than as an internal. Drives have the same characteris-
> tics whether they're in the CPU case or an enclosure.

It's just been my experience, that's all.  I've timed both the SCSI and
the IDE on startup.  Despite this difference, I prefer SCSI over IDE,
actually (SCSI is more reliable like you say).  At work, my *internal*
SCSI in the 9500 starts up very fast and the external SCSI (same brand
as my home external drive) takes a few seconds longer also.

> 
> So hows come you have Silverlining on your external? I plan to reformat my
> two gigger with Drive Setup once I get enough space to back it up. It has
> APS' driver on there now. If you use the official Apple driver, it'll update
> automatically when you install OS 8.0 or later to a system with the drive
> connected. Drive Setup recognizes the Quantum even though it wasn't an
> Apple supplied drive too.
> 

Hmmm.  Drive Setup has never recognized my 1.2 gig LaCie brand drive.  I
always thought this was strange because the drive has the Apple logo on
it, etc.  The drive came with the Silverlining driver already on it,
I've updated it several times, and have the newest version of the driver
installed.  When I installed OS 8, it told me I could not install the OS
on that particular drive (even with the *most recent* driver on
there--which *was* the requirement for installing!), so I have OS 8 on
the internal IDE drive instead.

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