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Don, Since reading your message, I went back and tried removing the terminator resistpak on the Konica. The result is that the A3000 will now boot if the Konica is turned off, will boot after about 30 seconds if the Konica is on, but no diskette inserted, and will boot immediately if the Konica is on and a diskette is inserted. So this seems to have been the solution, although I cannot understand why it works when the Konica is unterminated while the internal drive IS terminated. I did find a reference in the A3000 doc on page 4-23 which says "… you will need to remove the terminator packs on all but the last external SCSI device in the chain, and all but the last internal SCSI device in the chain." This suggests that indeed the internal drive should remain terminated (it's the only internal drive), but that the single external drive should BE terminated. However, for the A3000 to boot with the Konica powered off, the Konica had to be unterminated. I can only surmise that the Konica might have TPWR without the terminator pack, or takes termination from the internal drive, or supplies active termination. The latter doesn't seem likely since the Konica has a terminator resistpak. Anyway, it now seems to work as it should, other than it takes so long for the A3000 to boot when the Konica is on but has no diskette inserted. Otherwise, read/writes seem to be OK and the system apparently is now working correctly. Thanks for the suggestions.