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From: steve@iphase.UUCP (Steve Kappes PER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 3000 autobooting a 1096N
Message-ID: <229@iphase.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 90 16:23:45 GMT
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Reply-To: steve@iphase.UUCP (Steve Kappes PER)
Organization: Interphase Corp. Dallas TX
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>There's no problem with the A3000 and A2091.  The problem is entirely in
>Seagate drives.  The SCSI standard (SCSI-2 at least) specifies a maximum
>time from poweron to when a device should respond to selection. Why
>	Markku Kolkka
>	mk59200@tut.fi

Actually the SCSI-2 spec recommends a time of 10 seconds.  The time is
a recommendation, not a requirement.  I don't remember even a recommendation
in SCSI-1 which I believe both the host adapter and drive in question are.

Steve Kappes  Interphase Corp.  uunet!iphase!steve