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From: David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer)
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Subject: Re: 3000 autobooting a 1096N
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Date: 12 Aug 90 18:49:54 GMT
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Well, I don't know if there is a fix coming... if it were, it would have
to be in hardware (or somehow in the new KickStart ROM I guess).  You
might be able to patch a solder bridge somewhere on the hard drive
controler, but I'm sure not going to recommend that!  
 
The point is, there is a facility in place to overcome the problem, you
just can't activate it with the A3000.  But why should you be able to?
After all, the 3000s come with hard drives, and they work fine.  They
can't compensate for what you might do!  If you were to add the Seagate
external (as I did) then you would have a problem.
 
Like I said though, the wait time for Seagate drives is soooo long that
I don't enable it, even though I can.  Seagate, if anyone, should be
taking the heat for making a drive that takes 30 seconds to spool up.
On my machine at work, I have a 330 meg micropolis that weighs at least
ten times what the Seagates do, and it spins up faster.  I guess if
you try direct mail to someone they might give you a better answer.
 
But WAIT!  I have an idea!  Try configuring you 1096 as logical unit
6 or 7.  Since the drives are searched in sequence, that might dealy
(delay) it enough to catch it.  I have my externals as units 0,1 and 6,
and occaisionally it finds drive 6 on bootup.  Your machine being
faster though, it might not work.  Other than that, I can't think og
anything.


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