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From: manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 Hard Drives
Message-ID: <726.27d98dbc@vger.nsu.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 91 05:37:00 GMT
References: <27230@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991Mar7.161536.16200@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1991Mar7.191825.26824@javelin.es.com> <1991Mar7.205003.8951@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
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In article <1991Mar7.205003.8951@en.ecn.purdue.edu>, wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (William A Warner) writes:
> In article <1991Mar7.191825.26824@javelin.es.com> blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com writes:
>>[Second drive, which just happens to be a Seacrate, is not recognized by
>>the A3000 at boot time.]
>>
>>The problem is most likely Seagate's LONG spinup time. You can work
>>around that by getting hold of the program "BattMem" which will let you
>>change the A3000 controller's timeout from the standard setting to the
>>long "seagate" setting. 
> 
> Let me clarify something for a few people: 
>   The A3000 2nd HD problem is NOT:
>     spinup time
>     hardware hookup
>  or "operator error" (using wrong commands etc.)
> 

I have a HP 97533S Hard disk (external) connected to my 3000.  Not a bit
of a problem.  I also just got my 3000 this last week.

> Art Warner
> wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu
> Amiga makes it happen.......IBM, Mac, Sun, and Next make it expensive!

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