Re: ramfast 3.0 bus scan?

[toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)]

"Seth D. Kadesh" <sk2f+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>can anyone offer any hints or suggestions as to why my ramfast 3.0
>(rev. k i think) only comes up with the message "scanning scsi bus -
>this may take up to 45 seconds" sometimes?  i turn on my entire system
>with one switch, and it's annoying to have to turn the gs off and then

Lower the SCSI ID of your hard drive. All drives draw a lot of power when
they are starting up, and if your drive's power supply isn't really hefty
then it might take too long to be ready for SCSI commands. Since the Ramfast
scans from 7 down to 0, you can give the drive more time to be ready by
lowering its ID. The Quantum 100 I have is like this, so I keep it at ID 4
or so and while I still get the message for five/ten seconds I can turn
everything on at once and it will all come up the first time.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu