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- From: monty@sagpd1 ()
- Subject: Re: Minor Annoyances with SyQuest drive
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.151755.17587@sagpd1>
- Reply-To: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
- Organization: Scientific Atlanta, Government Products Div, San Diego, CA
- References: <Chuck_Andreas.0vgm@lhaven.UUmh.Ab.Ca> <1992Aug10.204113.29049@nntp <1992Aug10.210243.28806@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <mike.0338@agrijag.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 15:17:55 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article <mike.0338@agrijag.UUCP> mike@agrijag.UUCP (Mike Schiller) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug10.210243.28806@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> wbennett@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William F Bennett) writes:
- >>
- >> >> Also, is there some way to avoid having the hard disk light on the
- >> >> computer flash every second or so? I've changed SCSI IDs so that the
- >> >> internal hard drive has a lower number than the SyQuest but this made no
- >> >> difference.
-
- This has nothing to do to boot order. The OS polls the scsi Syquest
- to detect diskchange. I used to worry about it also :)
-
-
- >> >or without a cartridge in the Syquest, so it's an OS thing. It is annoying
- >> >and if anyone ever comes up with a patch, that'd be great.
- ^^^^^^
-
- Patch He#$ it should be an option in HDtoolBox for removable drives.
- For that matter it should be adjustable for all HD's. Some take longer
- than others to come on line.
-
- >
- >This is NOT true. If a SyQuest hooked up to a 3000 doesn't have a cartridge
- >in the drive you can still boot the machine, it's just that the A3000 will
- >poll the drive for 30 seconds before deciding that the drive is dead and
- >continuing on to the rest of the drive IDs. While I always try to have a
- >cartridge in the drive when I boot, I've also booted my system MANY times
- >without one in the machine. This is true of ANY removable media device
- >hooked to the A3000's SCSI port. I had at one time a SyQuest, a CD-ROM drive
- >and a Konica KT-510 drive, all removable media devices, and when I tried to
- >boot without disks in any of them the system booted just fine, only it took
- >1.5 minutes for the A3000 to start it's boot (30 sec x 3 devices = 1.5 min)
-
-
- C= if you are listening could this be incorporated in 2.1 before
- it is released. Why could not all removable media drives have an
- adjustable time out? Waiting several minutes to boot just because
- your syquest, cd-rom, floptical, bernoulli all do not have media
- is kind of silly don't you think?????
-
- Monty Saine
-
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