Re: 5.25" drive & FocusDrive

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Jeff Blakeney" <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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: On 25 Feb 2004 15:17:09 -0600, Michael Maginnis
<michaelmaginnis@yahoo.com> wrote:
:
: >Dave Althoff Jr wrote:
: >
: >> Do you really want SCSI ID 7?  IIRC, it is the SCSI ID that
you set to get
: >> it to delay on startup...
: >
: >Everything I have read indicates that the card should be left
at ID 7
: >(can't remember the reason off-hand).
:
: Michael, the higher the SCSI ID the higher priority that device
gets
: on the SCSI bus so it makes sense that you want the controller
card to
: have the highest ID and therefore the highest priority.  I
don't think
: it really makes much of a real world difference on most Apple
II
: setups, though.
:
: Dave, I think the ID you are thinking of is 2.  I believe that
is the
: one that causes the Apple SCSI card (I'm not sure if it is all
SCSI
: cards or just the high speed one) to delay for a while after
power on.

Quote from HS SCSI card owner's guide:

If you plan to use only a LaserWriter IIsc or an Apple
Scanner with your computer, you must reset the computer's
SCSI ID number to 2. This adds a 3-second delay in the
computer's start up process-time these devices need to
complete their own startup process.

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