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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!hela.iti.org!lokkur!scs
- From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
- Subject: Re: Sun 424Mb disk doesnt spin up until boot time
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.130402.28443@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
- Organization: Inland Sea
- References: <janet.714982388@dunnart>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 13:04:02 GMT
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- janet@cs.uwa.oz.au (Janet Jackson) writes:
-
- >I have an external Sun-supplied Seagate 424Mb SCSI disk (one of the lunchbox
- >variety - Desktop Storage Pack, something like that).
-
- >The external disk does not spin up when the system is powered on. It
- >doesn't matter in which order I power on the devices. "probe-scsi"
- >can see both disks, but for the external disk it doesn't show the
- >serial number (another sign of not having spun up).
-
- Most newer SCSI disks have a dip switch or jumper which controls the
- spinup time. You can choose either power-on or access. A call to
- Seagate (Imprimus/CDC, no doubt) will probably tell you which switch
- or jumper to change.
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- "When Dexter's on the Internet, can Hell be far behind?"
- -- Steve Simmons, scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us
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