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From: ecphssrw@afws.csun.edu (Stephen Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A500 Power-On Delay Problems
Message-ID: <1990Aug21.062207.6496@csun.edu>
Date: 21 Aug 90 06:22:07 GMT
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In-Reply-To: megabyte@chinet.chi.il.us (Dr. Megabyte)

In article <1990Aug17.130755.12300@chinet.chi.il.us>, megabyte@chinet (Dr. Megabyte) writes:
>I have bought a used Amiga 500 with a Trumpcard and a Seagate SCSI hard
>disk.  It runs great, but I have a problem when turning the system on!
>
>When I turn the system on, nothing, and I mean NOTHING happens until about
>a minute to a minute and a half goes by and then it comes on and works
>great.  If, after the system has come alive, I turn it off, it will come
>right back on, if I turn it back on.  However, if I wait to turn it back
>on, and I'm not sure how long I'd have to wait, I again get the delay in
>power on.

Two possibilities:  1.  Seagates take forever to spin up.  As discussed
here at length recently, the Seagate 1096N takes so long that a special
Preferences setting in the A3000 was added just to handle them.
2.  This was true for my HardFrame/Quantum combo:  a SCSI controller
checks for SCSI devices in numerical order from 0 to 7.  Make sure your
Seagate is jumpered as SCSI device 0.  Quantums come from the factory
jumpered as SCSI device 6, which adds about 30 seconds to bootup time.