Re: Need help with zip drive

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

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 :)
>

To follow up my own message here - the drive *won't* spin up if it's powered
on before the GS.

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