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From: rgc@wam.umd.edu (Ross Garrett Cutler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How to make your external HD power up with computer
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Date: 4 Apr 91 02:35:36 GMT
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In article <5244@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> isca@icaen.uiowa.edu (Iowa Student Computer Assoc) writes:
>
>  With the nifty keyboard power switch, I found it annoying to have to
>dig under my desk and power on my external HD so.... I fixed it up so
>that when I power up or down my NeXTstation, my external HD does the 
>same.  I thought others might be interested in this as it is a rather 
>easy hardware hack.

[ hack deleted ]

Nice hack.  But for people who don't wan't to splice their SCSI cable,
you can buy a Radio Shack surge supressor that has the following feature:
it monitors one line, and if sufficient current is being drawn, it turns
the other 5 lines on; otherwise, they're off.  So you plug your NeXT into
this special line and your drive and printer (and ...) into the others.
It only cost ~ $50 and it protects your computer too.  Radio Shack still
has a few good products... :-)
-- 
Please email -- I'll summarize.
Ross Cutler
University of Maryland, College Park
Internet: rgc@wam.umd.edu