On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 12:23:03PM -0000, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> Does anyone know if it is normal for external drives (DEC RZ55's
> in this case) to _not_ spin up on power-up? I haven't got all
> my cabling together yet, so I don't know what happens when they
> are hooked up to a live SCSI bus.
Turns out these guys always wait for a SCSI spin-up command.
Higher models have a jumper where you select to spin-up at
power-up or not (http://theref.aquascape.com/hard_drives/layouts/hs_dec_rz5x.html)
Later,
Kenn
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