BIG problem with 1542B and Quantum disks

[Alan Clegg]

In article <1991May9.002915.262 at wyvern.uucp> tmanos at wyvern.uucp (Tom Manos) writes:
. When both drives are installed and mounted doing:
. find <drive1> -depth -print | cpio -pd > <drive2>
. will hang the system after a random but small number of copies.  The disks
. will seem to slow down for a few seconds, until they come to a complete halt
. from which there is no return save the reset button.  The second disk is
. totally unusable. As long as I'm only accessing one disk, everything works.

Are you saying that the drives actually spin down?  If so, you may not have
a large enough power supply in your machine.

[Stupid suggestion, but, who knows...]

-abc
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