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In article <816507666snz@microvst.demon.co.uk>
           tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk "Anthony R. Gold" writes:

>In article <816475560snz@c4rv.demon.co.uk>
>           raj@c4rv.demon.co.uk "Rajesh Varia" writes:
>
>> If there a simple solution that does not involve returning the
>> drive to Quantum (expected to take 4-6 weeks to return).  He
>> also has about 300 meg of unbacked-up data on the drive (sods
>> law, he powers down the machine to plug in the DAT drive and
>> it fails), so he would like it working again.
>
>Is there a power supply problem?  Did you say the drive only fails to
>spin up when the DAT is also plugged in?  If so, it's fine to plug in
>the power connector of the DAT after the HDD has spun up.  Not a working
>proposition but okay to get both on-line to do the backup.  Then perhaps
>see if you need a meatier psu to support the speed-up power requirements
>of the Quantum with the DAT on line.

If it's SCSI it might be possible to avoid glitching by having the SCSI
card send a delayed power up command a few seconds after the power comes
up.

-- 
John Beardmore