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- From: paws@spam.cray.com (Daniel Baehr)
- Subject: Re: "I've fallen, and I can't power up!" :-)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.065206.10625@walter.cray.com>
- Sender: paws@spam (Daniel Baehr)
- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <10000058@hpmwmat.sr.hp.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 06:52:05 CDT
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- In article <10000058@hpmwmat.sr.hp.com>, mikep@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Mike Powell) writes:
- >
- > Hi all....
- >
- > Decided to set up a case/power supply for a SyQuest drive for
- > my A3000 (since it has no 5.25" drive bay).
- >
- > It has it's own fan, power supply and power switch.
- >
- > For some reason, my A3000 will not power up if the SyQuest
- > is powered up...! More specifically:
- >
- > The system seems to work fine if I FIRST power up
- > the A3000, then a second or so later, power up the
- > SyQuest box.
- >
- > If I power up the SyQuest before the A3000 then the
- > Amiga simply does not come up at all.... no fan, no lights
- > no activity whatsoever.
- >
- > My guess is that the Amiga power supply is seeing some voltage
- > through the SCSI ribbon cable, coming from the SyQuest, and
- > causes the Amiga supply to believe there is an electrical fault,
- > preventing the Amiga from powering up.
- >
- > Does this sound right?
-
- Some drives have a jumper on them that tell it where to get their
- power for the SCSI terminators. I dont know if the SyQuest drive has
- this feature but at the very least it *shouldn't* be supplying term
- power TO the bus.
-
- What COULD be happening is that the reset line is being held active
- when you power on the SyQuest first. But, that is sort of grabing at
- straws because I would then expect it to reset the 3000 when the
- SyQuest was powered on.
-
- >
- > Is my system in danger because of this?
-
- That depends on what the ultimate problem really is. If you are
- supplying term power TO the bus from 2 sources then you *could* be in
- danger of "wearing out" one or the other of the power supplies or
- creating a "ground loop". As long as NOTHING MORE THAN +5 VOLTS is
- being put on the SCSI bus you *should* have no problems.
-
- >
- > Is there a more elegant way to deal with this situation?
-
- Would a power distribution center that turns secondary outlets on
- when a master device is powered up work for you? Or wouldn't the time
- delay be long enough?
-
- >
- > Thanks in advance.
- >
- > -Mike-
- >
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