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From: SELLSWORTH@HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU ("Scott, part time fuzzy")
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Subject: Re: Event Manager
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Date: 3 Dec 89 21:39:00 GMT
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>gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson) writes:
     
>[stuff omitted]
>> 2) If it's not, then why do I get Fatal System Error $0682
>>    (emBadQHndlErr) when I power up on certain occasions?
>>
>>   Here's what happens:  If I power up my CMC hard drive, and then
>> power up the GS, everything is peechy.  If I then turn off the GS, and
>> turn it back on without powering the drive down, then I get the fatal
>> system error before the computer even does anything.
     
>Funny... same thing happens to me, although I never went and isolated
>it to being a problem of whether or not the hard disk(s) were turned on
>Anyone else having this problem?
>        Joseph F. Schober, Sysop, StarPort BBS [703/931-0947 - 3/12/2400]


  Yep.  Happens to me too, but I have one CMS HD and the CMS SCSI card. 
Explanation I heard was that the running drive leaks enough power to the card
when the computer is off to prevent the memory from being cleared properly.  I
have not had the motivation to get out the VOM and track this down, but it
seems plausible.  Perhaps someone (like maybe me?) should try keeping the
computer off for varying lengths of time to see if there is a correlation.

  For about a month, I was contantly reseating my SCSI card, as I thought that
was the problem.  Since I turned everything off when I did that, of course it
worked fine.  Sigh.

  Scott
  SELLSWORTH@HMCVAX
  sellswor@jarthur.claremont.edu