Y'know... I recently downloaded a bunch of tech info about this drive from
IBM's website, and this drive DOES have that capability (of setting jumpers
for autostart). I think I'd better take the drive out and look at it.
Thanks for the tip!
Dave
> From: snetsrak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 10:01:06 -0600
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Duo/2400 List)
> Subject: [Duo2400] Re: Dock HD Problem
>
> I'm not familiar with these IBM drives, but I've had the same problem
> setting up a quantum drive in an external case. From a cold startup the
> drive would never spin up and appear on the desktop without sending it a
> separate mount command from FWB Mounter, Drive Setup or some other
> utility. I finally solved the problem by checking the jumper specs and
> putting a jumper over the right pins to tell the drive to spin up and get
> ready for write commands immediately when powered up, soon enough to be
> sensed by the boot drive. (Although other seemingly identical drives
> worked fine without this jumper pin in place.?!?)
> So I'd say check with IBM to see if there's not some simple jumper
> setting that you can apply.
>
> P.S. I've found that drives with termination problems often are like
> 'invisible', don't appear on the bus and aren't recognized by any setup
> utility.
>
> KenK
>
>
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