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- From: jdow@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: NEW QUESTION: on A3000 SCSI
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 08:02:38 GMT
- Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
- Message-ID: <4ehuuu$9te@news2.delphi.com>
- References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127160715.12792D-100000@Bayou.UH.EDU>
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- In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.960127160715.12792D-100000@Bayou.UH.EDU>,
- Nhan Nguyen <st82f@bayou.uh.edu> wrote:
- >Hi all,
- >
- > I just plugged a Zip drive into the SCSI port on my A3000 at SCSI
- >ID 5, and the internal drive was already at ID 6. The Zip is terminated.
- >Some people tell me the internal drive is terminated, while others say it
- >isn't. Anyway, now thsat I've added this Zip, my internal HD light blinks
- >very briefly every 3-5 seconds or so. Anyone have an idea why, or is it
- >just harmless?
-
- ZIP is a removeable media drive. Since your system has a removeable media drive
- in it the system has gone into a mode whereby it tests that device for the
- presence of its media so that disk changes are noticed. These tests blink the
- drive lights.
-
- > ---------Nhan Nguyen---------
- > Junior, U of H RTV Department
- > -Black Acura NSX = Happiness-
- > -----------------------------
-
- {^_^} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX, aka The Wizardess
- jdow@bix.com, jdow@delphi.com, jdow@mci.newscorp.com
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