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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Old hddisk.device bug
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Date: 13 Jun 90 20:32:31 GMT
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In <550@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org>, space@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org (Lars Soltau) writes:
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>And, BTW, don't try to blame this on the drive. I've had this behaviour with
>a Rodime, a Seagate and now my Maxtor SCSI drive. So it's pretty save to
>assume that the Amiga is the bad guy here, isn't it?

Try putting the drive at SCSI target 6, and see if that helps. It will take
longer for the driver software to get to it when looking for drives, and if the
problem is that the drive is not ready when it is scanned, it might be when set
to a higher address. It's worked for me on several drives.

-larry

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