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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: HD Problems, another question
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Date: 3 Oct 90 05:26:41 GMT
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In article <111012@tiger.oxy.edu> prophet@oxy.edu (Dale Bruce LaFountain) writes:
>Should a DMA SCSI card have any effect on Prodos 8 applications if there
>is no SCSI device connected to the card?  I disconnected my defective
>drive (I plugged it into a Mac and it is indeed dead), and I still can't
>get any Prodos 8 applications to make it past the version and copyright
>screen.  I'm not sure if this is a feature or a problem; I never bothered
>to try it before.  Common sense suggests that it shouldn't interfere, but
>since when have peripherals been logical?  :-)
	This may be wrong, but I have had the same 'problem'..

	What I believe to be the case is that the GS is 'polling' the SCSI
card... Since there's no card there, it's hung up (for a while)..

	If you let it sit for somewhere around 15-30 seconds (I forget for
sure), it will then start rebooting slot 5 or whatever slot you have
set to boot from.

	It doesn't matter whether you have Appletalk turned on or 
slot 7 set to Your Card...  It doesn't happen every time I boot, but
it happens SOME times. That's what I don't really understand, but it
sure seems like it's 'polling' the card...

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