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From: tlbaltad@pacengr.UUCP (Tim Baltad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Different Quantum HD in recent A3000s?
Summary: Wait/Spin jumper
Keywords: Quantum LP105S
Message-ID: <852@pacengr.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 91 03:15:10 GMT
References: <11385@ncar.ucar.edu> <1991May12.231315.29101@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <21869@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <21869@cbmvax.commodore.com>, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
> In article <1991May12.231315.29101@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
> >>Hey.  The hard disk is _weird_; the HDToolbox says it is a Quantum LP105S.
> >>What it likes to do is spin down while I am working in an Editor and am not
> >>actively accessing the disk.  When I go to write the file, it then spins up
> >>(takes about eight seconds) and does the write.  I go on and work for about

I beleive there is a WS (Wait/Spin) jumper on the drive that must be
removed, so that the drive spins up on power up instead of waiting for drive
access.
BTW that is the new 105 SCSI...LP means low profile.
Tim