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- From: pwright@crash.cts.com (Phil Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: JAZ spindown and lost volumes?
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 14:23:58 GMT
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- On 14-Apr-96 16:20:52, hankduckman was reported to have said:
- >
- >I use an Iomega 150 external removeable hd on my system, which, AFAIK, is
- >basically a 150 meg version of the Jaz.
-
- I don't think so. Does your 150 do Synchronous Fast SCSI2 transfers at a
- sustained 6+ MB/sec?
-
- >I have exactly the same problem, with the drive spinning down if not
- >accessed for a while. I just reinsert the cartridge and it spins right up
- >again.
- >
-
- And you can do the same with the Jaz.
-
- Unfortunately if a program attempts to access the Jaz when it is spun down
- you get the "Please insert Volume so-and-so" requester. At this point,
- ejecting and re-inserting the cartridge has not been 100% successful on my
- system. Why, I can't tell you.
-
- The diskchange command doesn't always do the trick because it doesn't
- always cause the Jaz to spin back up.
-
- I also don't know why the Jaz drive spins up and down repeatedly when
- connected on the same SCSI bus as a Barracuda. Yet it does. <shrug>
-
- Phil
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- pwright@cts.com
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