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From: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: SCSIs off [was:Re: should hard drives be left running 24 hrs/day?]
Summary: We inhabit a fallen world, as do our drives; the mac ignores this.
Message-ID: <903@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Apr 89 17:27:50 GMT
References: <1279@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <28835@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: @nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk:flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
Organization: EE Dept, Queen Mary College, ULondon E1-4NS
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I turn mine off several times a day, because it's too loud.  You get some
*weird* errors if you forget to turn it back on.  Once the entire screen
shifted an inch to the right.*  Shouldn't the SCSI manager be smarter than
this?  Didn't Ephraim Vishniac post an algorithm to make it so?
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*Not quite, but you know what I mean.
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From: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
Reply-To: sheridan@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
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