Re: Need help with zip drive

[day@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU (Evan Day)]

In article <63b7o4$mip@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>,
Mark C Spaeth <mspaeth@athena.mit.edu> wrote:
>In article <638320$qfa$1@news.NERO.NET|,
>Evan Day <day@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU| wrote:
>|In article <62qdeh$ovv$1@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca|,
>|Devin Reade <glyn@cs.ualberta.ca| wrote:
>||In article <19971021135719262185@slip129-37-106-177.wa.us.ibm.net|,
>||
>||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.
>|
>|Here's a quirk.  I have a Maxtor 540mb drive hooked up to my GS that must
>|be powered on *after* the GS.  The drive doesn't spin up until it's probed
>|by the RAMFast.  I salvaged the drive from an IBM RS/6000 workstation, so
>|the jumpers probably aren't set right, but hey, it works :)
>
>Are you sure you don't have the "delay spin up by 10secs * scsi ID" jumper set?

Actually, I grabbed the specs from the maxtor web site the other day because
I found a second drive and needed to set the SCSI ID.  It specifically has
a jumper set to "Spin up on Power" instead of waiting for a SCSI Start
command.

It's a wierd beast, noisy as hell, but the price was right :)
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