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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Hardrives and the A3000
Message-ID: <20247@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 Apr 91 04:54:09 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.160827.28210@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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>In article <1991Mar22.064048.12805@en.ecn.purdue.edu>, wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (William A Warner) writes...

>>One small thing that I have noticed is that different types of reboots affect
>>the 2nd HD problem.  
>>Here are my current symptoms again:
>>  Cold boot-up:  No 2nd HD recognized.  Both HD's spinup no problem.
>>   1st warm rb:     2nd HD recognized.
>>   2nd  "   rb:  Not recognized  
>>   3rd  "   rb:        "  "
>>   4th  "   rb:  Not   "  "
>>   etc .......etc.......etc   forever and forever.......AMEN.
>> 
>>Now does this sound like a sporatic occurence to you?

	Hmmm.  Are you _certain_ that the reset line is connected to both
drives, and that both drives are set up to reset properly?  (have you
tested the reset connection with a VOM?)  It can be hard to tell, but does
the second drive appear to reset when you reboot?  Drives/cables designed/
modified for use with macs often ignore the reset signal.  I also advise
getting the NVRAM program to set the "seagate" bit.  (It's called BattMem,
or some such, and has been mentioned here before.  If you can't find it,
I might be persuaded to whip a rough one up, but I know it's been done
already.)

	Unfortunately, the drive's exact response to reset is hard to quantify
without a scsi test program or (far better/more likely to work) a SCSI
analyzer ($$).

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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