Re: Need help with zip drive

[mspaeth@athena.mit.edu (Mark C Spaeth)]

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?