Re: Hard Drive Jumper Setup

[Boris Herman]

Hi

Has anyone had any success on figuring out the jumper setup to get
a Seagate ST15150W (Compaq No. 199591-001).  I know these were
The problem is that the thing needs a wakeup call to mount, no
matter what you set the jumpers to.
You can mount the drive via SCSIProbe or Mt. Everything, and it will
come back up on the desktop after a restart, but shut it down and it
stays asleep until you manually mount it.
Would like to thank everyone for there responses that dusted off the
I haven't unpacked from the last move, and found the sheet from when
I tried before..  I had written on it "Don't bother, PITA".  Well it
gave me something to do and kept me off the streets....  ;-)
If I remember correctly there were some Adaptec SCSI PC controllers 
that had an option in BIOS that said "send start unit command" for each 
SCSI device. So you could use this drive in a PC, or, if you are 
satisfied if the drive is a second drive, you could send an Applescript 
command on startup that would mount the drive on each startup.

Regards,
Boris
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