#Quantum Failings
14-Aug-95 14:19:27
Sb: #Quantum Failings
Fm: Christian Busse 100121,1360
To: Anthony Keeley 100014,1546
Anthony,
I had a similar problem with my Maxtor 7120S drive (not spinning up at all,
spinning up only some time after booting, spinning up/down at odd times). I
have a fairly loaded machine (A2000) with flicker fixer, SCSI host adaptor,
graphics board (Merlin w/4MB), 16bit FastRAM expansion w/4MB, Multi I/O board,
and CSA Mega Midget Racer with 68030-33, 68882-20, 512K SRAM and 4MB DRAM. The
problem got worse once I installed a new hard disk (Quantum LPS240) in this
system (the Quantum, BTW, behaved perfectly well). Now I have all my SCSI gear
moved to an external SCSI mini tower case with its own PSU. I have 3 hard disks
(Maxtor, LPS240 and my new Quantum Lightning 730S drive) and a CD-ROM drive in
there and they all behave perfectly. So I guess the power supply must have been
the culprit. You DO have a separate PSU for the A590, do you?
Cheers,
// Christian "ELP" Busse
\X/ near Frankfurt, Germany