Re: Need help with zip drive

[shack@io.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

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.

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.

>Why don't we just leave this all as "your mileage may vary."  If you
>have no problem with turning everything on at the same time and don't
>experience any problems with that, fine.  But I don't think that's the
>advice that should be conveyed to a new user *or* to a person like
>myself who has seen what works and what hasn't in a particular setup.
>And I would still prefer to be on the safe side, regardless.

OK
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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