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From: mwang@.com (Michael Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Question on Removable HD
Message-ID: <1991Jan2.144826.16964@oracle.com>
Date: 2 Jan 91 14:48:26 GMT
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In article <1990Dec31.181853.28607@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> daemon@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Mr Background) writes:
>
>I own a removable hard disk which I like very much. There is only one
>thing I feel a little annoyed and would like to know if this is the
>same to all removable hard disk.
>
>        The thing is that I need to turn on the removable before I
>turn on the Mac. If not, the Mac won't recognize the removable. Also,
>once both the removable and the Mac are turned on, I cannot turn off
>the removable and leave only the Mac on. If I do so, the Mac is freezed
>until you turn on the removable again or you restart the Mac. The
>reason I feel annoyed is that I would rather not leave the removable on
>when I don't need the data in it and would like to turn it on any time
>when I need it. But I cannot do this right now.
[...stuff deleted...]

I purchased a Syquest removable hard drive from Mirror Technologies
a while back and had the same problem with the Mac not working unless
the Syquest was turned on. I fixed the problem by taking out the internal
terminator (a set of resistors) from the Syquest. Now the Mac boots up fine
without the Syquest turned on. You should check with the company that built
your drive to see if a similar procedure is recommended for your drive.


Michael Wang
mwang@oracle.com