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- From: basiji@milton.u.washington.edu (David Basiji)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Turning off SCSI devices and Rel 2.1
- Message-ID: <basiji.711941162@milton>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 01:26:02 GMT
- Article-I.D.: milton.basiji.711941162
- References: <1992Jul22.114709.9162@investor.pgh.pa.us> <1992Jul23.213549.10270@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- marianne@stevie.bsd.uchicago.edu (Marianne Guntow) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Jul22.114709.9162@investor.pgh.pa.us>
- >rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:
- >> I have an HSD scanner at the end of my SCSI chain. Since I don't use it
- >> all the time and it gets pretty hot, I like to turn it off when I am not
- >> using it. When I had Rel2.0 I did not seem to have a problem with this.
- >> Recently I installed 2.1 and now the system will go along for a couple
- >> of days and then suddenly fill up swap space. It may be that this is a
- >> problem with 2.1 which is totally unrelated to the scanner but if I
- >> leave the scanner on swap doesn't seem to fill up. Maybe I haven't
- >> waited long enough. Anyhow I would appreciate any info on this.
-
- >I recently started having a similar problem. I attached a Bernoulli
- >Transportable 90 drive to my NeXT and used it for a couple days without
- >any trouble. The trouble started when I tried to eject the disk. The
- >manual says to drag the disk icon to the Recycler and only to press the
- >drive's eject button when the disk disappears from the File Viewer. Mine
- >wouldn't. I couldn't figure if the manual was wrong or what but, being
-
- I have a 90PRO transportable and I had to open the small vented front
- panel and throw a two-position switch so the NeXT could see the Bernoulli
- as a removable device. Seems the default position (which suits SGI and
- others) of the switch is as non-removeable. This panel is about 3/4"
- by 1.5" and is about 3" to the left of the blue rubber button.
- BTW, this info was not in the manual but included on a separate slip of
- paper that came with my drive.
-
- Enjoy,
- David Basiji
-
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- David Basiji
- "C neophyte, Bioengineering Grad Student, Internet Personality"
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- email: basiji@u.washington.edu
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