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- From: blake@blkbox.com (Blake Scruggs)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A Quantum Fireball that refuses to behave
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 21:06:36 GMT
- Organization: The Black Box, Houston, Tx (713) 480-2686
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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...
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- >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...)
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- For Re: The Fireball 1080 installed into my XDS IDE Chassis and has
- worked flawlessly for Apprx. 4 months now.
-
- Installed as in 'Out-of-the-Box'
-
- Blake
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