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[Heiko Blume]

neese at adaptex.UUCP writes:
>What the behavior you are describing is quite simple.  At power on a SCSI
>device goes through it's self-test.  Some SCSI devices will hold the SCSI
>bus busy during this period of time.  These devices will cause a SCSI bus
>reset to be issued by the adapter after the SCSI bus goes free so you will
>see the device go through it's self test again.
>If a OS issues a SCSI bus reset and does not wait for the bus to clear up
>before going further, there is a good chance that they will not recognize the
>device when they get to the first issuance of a SCSI command.

all too true, with my three drive combo i have to reboot after i power the
machine up (when the 'booting the blah' message comes) because the ST296
is too slow at startup - it doesn't show up the first time. i didn't had to
do this with my old board because the ram test took longer, so installing
more RAM (more than 8MB) could cure this :-)
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