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- From: Ragman@cris.com (Ragman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball Now Works - HOW???? :-)
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 22:05:24 GMT
- Organization: Concentric Internet Services
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- B E Verins (beverins@aol.com) wrote:
- : After fiddling with the Quantum for a bit, occasionally getting it to boot
- : up with my GVP GForce 040, I figured to hack at it a bit using Disksalv 3.
- : I ran the CLEAN utility (which took about 18 hours to do, it seemed
- : like)... It still seemd to have trouble booting up, but then, after I
- : plugged in my ZIP into the back, IT WORKED. Now the Fireball boots up with
- : no difficulty, with or without the ZIP installed. All this with the 4.x
- : revision of the GVP ROM. And I didn't futz with the jumpers or anything.
- : This is ALL I did!
-
- We talking SCSI here? ZIP is another SCSI drive?
-
- : Question is: WHAT DID I DO RIGHT???? :-)
-
- If yes to the above questions, sounds as if your Quantum is/was not
- terminated on the SCSI bus, but your ZIP is terminated, so that in turn
- terminates that end of the bus.
-