Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!joe
From: joe@cbmvax.UUCP (Joe O'Hara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 2090A + ST277N
Summary: Warm boot should work fine
Message-ID: <4985@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 88 03:40:56 GMT
References: <4783@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: joe@cbmvax.UUCP (Joe O'Hara)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <4783@louie.udel.EDU> AXDRW%ALASKA.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Mouseslayer by trade) writes:
>Well, with egar shacking hands I unpacked my shiny new 2090A and seagate
>ST277N yesterday.  And am happy to say that the installation procedure
>went flawlessly.  I now have a REAL computer, it even does fast directorys.:-)
>However all is not bright on the horizon, on the 2090A addendum it states
>the following:
>"You cannot autoboot with a Seagate SCSI hard drive and an A2090A Controller
>Card because of the long initialization process in the Seagate power-up
>sequence."

>What I am hoping is that "power-up sequence" means you can't boot on power
>up, but after the drive has finished it's power on sequence, you can reboot
>and then boot.  I can't check yet, because I didn't get the 1.3 Roms I
>ordered from CATS.

The autoboot problem with Seagate SCSI drives refers to power-up, as the
statement reads. Warm boots will work.
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