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- From: rdavis@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Robert Davis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: SCSI question #4376:-}
- Date: 18 Jan 1996 07:21:37 -0700
- Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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- rhays@ansel.intersource.com (Rob Hays) writes:
-
- >I have an A3000 to which I have added a Syquest 105 drive internally in
- >the spot intended for the second floppy drive. When I boot, if there
- >is no cartridge in the Syquest, the system waits approx 30 seconds befor
-
- >booting from the boot partition of the internal hard drive.
-
- >The SCSI id of the Syquest was 0 and the internal hd was 6. If a
- >cartridge is in the Syquest, the system boots normally from the hd.
-
- >I recently changed the hd for a new unit, and at the same time set the
- >new hd id to 0 and the Syquest id to 6 thinking that this would cure the
-
- >above behavior, but it didn't. Exactly the same thing happens on a boot.
-
- >I've tried various boot priority values for the boot partition on the hd
-
- >but no change.
-
- >This happens both on cold and warm boots.
-
- >Any ideas?
-
- >Thanks,
-
- >Rob Hays
-
- =====
- A whole lot of people ... including me ... see exactly that situration
- on any A3000 with a removable media drive.
- Many writers say their A3000s won't boot without a disk in their
- CD ROM drive.
- At the Amiga Users Group of Kansas City on January 15, the program
- was a demo of the Iomega Zip ... the same situation appears there
- on an A2000. Without a disk in the ZIP, it takes along time
- to boot ... one should note that that particular A2000 has a
- Commodore 2091 SCSI host adapter, very similar to the built in
- host adapter in the A3000.
- My A3000, with a ReNo CDROM drive, will wait several minutes to
- boot without a disk in the ReNo. I think that all the A3000 users
- with CDROM drives will eventually see their computers start
- without a disk in the CD drive, if they wait long enough.
- So...
- I can't prove it, but I suspect the long wait to boot is
- something related to the Commodore SCSI driver, the removeable
- media drive (CD or writable), and their interaction.
- I have read that CDROM owners with other types of SCSI host
- adapters do see their systems boot swiftly without a disk
- in the CD drive.
-
- --
- rdavis@nyx.net Robert (Bob) Davis
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