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In article <1321@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> djh@neuromancer.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson) writes:
>I recently decided to put the 30MB Seagate SCSI drive I was using in my
>A-1000 inside my A-3000 for a whopping 70MB total. The internal 40MB
>Quantum is reported by the HD Toolbox as residing at SCSI address 0, and
>the Seagate at SCSI address 6.

	I thought we shipped all the Quantums configured for address 6.  Then
again, I'm not in production, so I could be wrong.

>The HD Toolbox was not successful at low-level formatting the Seagate; it
>would lock up. That's OK, it was already prepped anyway, I just wanted to
>be complete.

	Strange: low-level format is merely a FORMAT_UNIT command, nothing
even slightly unusual.  All SCSI direct-access CAM devices are required to
support it.  You say 30Meg: I didn't know Seagate made a 30Meg SCSI drive.
If they do, it may be an _old_ drive (like the 225N's: barely compliant).

>THE PROBLEM WHEN THE POWER IS TURNED OFF! When the A-3000 is again brought
>to life, AmigaDOS no longer sees SDH1:; the device simply isn't present,
>visible, or recognized in any way. If I go back into the HD Toolbox and
>run Change Drive Type <losing all the drive's info after the reboot> my
>Seagate is recognized again until the next power-down. What Gives?

	The problem is that Seagate drives (especially old ones) take forever
to spin up, up to 30 seconds.  There's a soft switch in the NVRAM in the A3000
for setting "seagate mode", but there's no prefs editor for it yet.  The A2091
and A590 have dip switches/jumpers for this.  The solution (until the editor
appears): after power-up, wait a few seconds and warm-boot.

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