#Cart drive hangs boot
10-Mar-95 18:35:19
Sb: #187955-#Cart drive hangs boot
Fm: Rob Hays 72764,2066
To: Richard Rae 72177,3516
Richard,
I also have a Syquest (105) in my 3000.
If there is no cart in when the machine is booted, it takes about 30 seconds
for the harddrive to go ahead and boot. With a cart in the Syquest, it boots
from the HD at once.
Using HDToolBox, My system shows the Syquest as unit 0 and the Maxtor as unit
6, both with a LUN of 0. I presume this means that with no cart in the Unit 0
drive, the system waits until the SCSI interface times out before going to the
next possible drive on the bus.
If this is the case with your system, you could try changing the Unit number
jumpers on the two drives. Another possibilty would be one of the programs that
allow you to change the SCSI parameters, such as time out. You might be able to
"force" the system to look elsewhere for a bootable drive after a shorter wait.
Hope this helps,
Rob Hays