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From: lkoop@pnet01.cts.com (Lamonte Koop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Quantum Hard Drives
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Date: 8 Sep 90 07:36:01 GMT
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I'm sorry if this has at one time been discussed, but I need some information
pertaining to Quantum HDs.  Specifically, I am curious about a particular
behavior of the drives after performing a write operation to the disk.  It
appears that after performing said write, the drive will perform another I/O
operation a second or so later, lasting just an instant.  (No, I'm not 
referring to the drive dumping it's cache buffer) Furthermore, if this 
operation is not performed, due to a system reset or such, no problems are
encountered with the drive, save for one peculiarity:  The drive will seem
to search for something for quite a while upon re-start, then apparently
having found it, will boot normally. (This seems to be a common behavior
to all Quantums I have encountered) What exactly is this small I/O operation
doing?  Thanks in advance.

--LaMonte

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