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From: rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SCSI drive with 1740 EISA
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In article <1993Mar22.200753.28340@coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
>Is there any way to get Julian's drivers to send a startup command to
>disks on the bus?  I have to use standard mode to boot, and so I can't
>set the BIOS on the 1740 to fire off the startup command to a DEC RZ25,
>and I don't want to change anything on the drive.

There is a jumper on the disk to have it startup at power on, is that
already too much of a "change anything on the drive"?

Kai Uwe Rommel

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