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- From: para@Walden.mo.net (Beakman's Secret Identity)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A Quantum Fireball that refuses to behave
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 08:38:07 GMT
- Organization: Deranged Social Workers
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- : B E Verins wrote:
- : >
- : > I recently purchased a Quantum Fireball 1GB HD, to attach to my GForce 040
- : > 33mhz. It acts very strangely, booting up at power up, but no on a reset.
- : > Also, to get it to boot up after powering off, I have to fiddle with the
- : > jumpers (doesn't matter WHAT I do, all i have to do is take one off, or
- : > put one back on). Only then does it work.
- : >
- : > This is driving me crazy.
-
- Just a warning...
-
- On the various MAC systems, the Fireballs were found to corrupt themselves.
-
- Now, this may or may not affect Amiga systems, but it depends on the SCSI
- interface...
-
- Basically on the Fireball drives is a write-back cache. When the Macs
- would shutdown, it was turning the power off (on internal drives) before
- the cache had finished writing...
-
- So it might apply to internal Fireballs in Amigas should you turn the
- power off...
-
- Though this doesn't sound exactly like the problem you described, just
- wanted to list it as a possibility.
-
- (BTW Not all Fireballs do this on Macs BTW... It seems to only be on
- PowerMacs, and even then, not all Fireballs do it. :p Go fig...)
-
- ParaPsykotic (DSW)
- Tony Bossaller
- para@mo.net
- http://mo.net/para
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