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From: perley@mazda.steinmetz (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: experiences with A2090A
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Date: 14 Oct 88 17:06:25 GMT
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In article <4824@louie.udel.EDU> AXDRW@UDEL.EDU, writes:
+  kim@amdahl.amdahl.com - writes ...

+>>  The documentation said that
+>> Seagate SCSI drives cannot autoboot because of the long latency
+>> in initialization.

+The document actually states: "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."

+You can autoboot after power-up, just try the three finger neck pinch.

But for a warm boot you could do it off the ram disk, so what good
does the A2090*A* do?  Or can you power on, let the boot fail, wait for
the drive to initialize, then reboot?



-don perley