Re: Need help with zip drive

[glyn@cs.ualberta.ca (Devin Reade)]

In article <19971021135719262185@slip129-37-106-177.wa.us.ibm.net>,
B.J. Major <bjblackbear@ibm.net> wrote:

>And yes, like any other
>SCSI item, its power MUST be on before powering up [any] computer
>system.

This is not quite accurate; some machines work quite well when their
SCSI devices are powered up at the same time as the motherboard.  Take
the stock Sun machines for example.  It's really a matter of timing;
as long as the SCSI devices are ready to respond when the controller
queries them, it shouldn't be a problem.

Even on my GS I don't have a problem with simultanious power-up.  And
that's using 2 SCSI HDs, a tape drive, a Zip drive, and a CD-ROM.
*And*, the RAMFast is set to short timeout.  The only mitigating 
factor is that I'm using a Vulcan as my boot device.

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	Devin Reade	gdr@myrias.com